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“Back at home, I pulled myself together and reflected on what had happened. Given how the people had behaved when they heard the wrongheaded and hateful rabbi’s curse of excommunication, I realized…
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Ludwig Philippson
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Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia
(Magdeburg, Germany)
Date:
1854
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The interior of the wooden Horb synagogue (completed in 1735) is richly decorated in typical East European style, which, it seems, the artist Eliezer Zusman, originally from Brody, introduced to…
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Artist Unknown
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Horb am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Marktzeuln, Germany)
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1735
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Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, Kingdom of Prussia
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1869
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These are the words of the covenant as a statute for Jacob, as an everlasting covenant for Israel; the Almighty spoke but once—and He will never alter His law—through the Torah and the ruling which…
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Bet Din of Hamburg
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
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1819
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27. On the eve of the Sabbath they light the oven in the home of the beadle, where they bake cakes and roast what is required for the Sabbath. They also boil the pots for the needs of…
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Yuspa Shamash
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire
(Worms, Germany)
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17th Century
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On the third morning, as soon as I was alone, I found the way to the mellah [in Marrakesh]. I came to an intersection where many Jews were standing around. Traffic was streaming past them and around a…
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Elias Canetti
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Munich, Germany
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1968
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In the previous article, I presented you, dear reader, with the essence of the three different approaches existing within our religion, to which I have respectively…
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Fabius Mieses
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Leipzig, German Confederation
(Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
1868
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Johannes Alexander Böner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1705
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1748
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This Purim tray from the seventeenth century was made in Hamburg, Germany. A fine repoussé piece, its center is adorned with a court scene, complete with a ruler sitting on a raised throne, surrounded…
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Artist Unknown
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Free Imperial City of Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
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17th Century