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Artist Unknown
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Westheim, Holy Roman Empire
(Westheim, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1750
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Printed birth amulet. The decorative borders are composed of printers’ devices and decorations that were used by printers in Fürth (Bavaria), so it is assumed that this amulet was printed in that city…
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Artist Unknown
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Fürth, Holy Roman Empire
(Fürth, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1750
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The Lion’s Chancellor, the Wolf, was taken to court by all the animals, who complained that no living being was safe from his predatory jaws. “This insatiable creature…
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David Friedländer
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1779
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Aron Wolf often terrified us children, and yet he was one of the most harmless people one can imagine. He never hurt anyone, nor did he ever approach any of us with as much as a word.
But…
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Isidor Borchardt
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(Germany, Germany)
Date:
1910
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Hillel the Babylonian, the important teacher of Israel, was poor and needy, and his daily income consisted of half a zuz. One half of this he used for food, the other half he…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
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(Germany, Germany)
Date:
1916
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[ . . . ] Let us return to my maternal grandmother, Matte, of blessed memory. After she married off my late aunt Ulk, she was left penniless with the fatherless child my mother, may she live…
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Glikl bas Leyb Hamel
Places:
Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1719
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ca. 1750
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Aron maintained confident hope in one child. To this day, it remains uncertain whether or not this hope was fulfilled, but you can’t talk to him about it.
The transport that led from the Bohemian…
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Jurek Becker
Places:
East Berlin, East Germany
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1976
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The first reports about Hans date to the time when he wasn’t yet three years old. At that time, he demonstrated—in various ways of talking and asking—a particularly vivid interest in that part of the…
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Sigmund Freud
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Date:
1909
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There was a boy, Raphael, and a girl, Judith. The latter gave promise of great beauty. Both received a careful education, in accordance with the requirements of the age, from a tutor, one Herr…
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Karl Emil Franzos
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1891