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In the month of Tevet of the same year I entered that school and began studying Greek with tremendous dedication. I repented of all my previous actions and habits, just as I had promised my father (of…
Contributor:
Abraham Rosanes
Places:
Ruse, Ottoman Empire
(Ruse, Bulgaria)
Date:
1864
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A compilation containing all the techniques of poetry simply put; covering all the principles, meters, rhymes, correct methods, and true rules; sifted and clarified; solid as a bronze mirror, such…
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Joshua Benveniste
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1635
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There is a matter well known and widely publicized among all those who have come through the gates of our city, Constantinople [Istanbul], may God preserve it. . . . [I]t occurred about two years…
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Isaac Akrish
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1858
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As I write these words it occurs to me that, since it is the woman who runs the household, she must have wide knowledge and be a good manager. For many centuries our nation ignored women’s education…
Contributor:
Rosa Gabbay
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1871
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Our periodical [Mir’ât] was established to exist in a space of freedom as far away as possible from the recorded language of formality. Deficiencies in style and form will…
Contributor:
Avram Naon
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1909