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Anshel of Kraków, Szmuel, Aszer, and Eljakim Helicz
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1534
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All the letters in this beautiful new prayer book,
from beginning to end, I set with my own hands.
Gele, daughter of R. Moses the printer
and Frau Freide, who bore me among ten children, may they…
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Gele bat Moses ben Abraham Ger
Places:
Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg
(Halle, Germany)
Date:
1710
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There are a few Torah scholars who are rich in knowledge and whose mental grasp is abundant, while others do not possess an intellectual grasp akin to theirs, for everyone possesses mental grasp in…
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Yeḥiel Mikhel Epstein
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Fürth, Holy Roman Empire
(Fürth, Germany)
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1683–1693
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The ten years that followed the arrival of Abraham and Beatrice in Lublin were peaceful and therefore happy, thanks to the Almighty, blessed be He. Abraham and Kalonymos gradually improved the print…
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Marek Halter
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Paris, France
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1986
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A woman named Bella stayed behind to speak to me. Her hair was carefully waved, touched with streaks of blond, her eyes round and blue. She was not one of the shapeless old, but kept waist, hips, and…
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Norma Rosen
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1996
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[ . . . ] We have heard so much about the achievements of the Evsektsiia [Jewish sections of the Communist Party] in the field of Jewish culture that for this alone many…
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N. Chanin
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1929
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The puritanically strict observance of the closing hour in London, the lack of continental-style coffee-houses, and perhaps also the isolated situation of the by no means untroubled British Isles may…
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Egon Erwin Kisch
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1924
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Aleksandr Tyshler
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1928
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Leonard Baskin
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1955
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Morning flew by in the usual way,
Up and down streets, it raced,
Unwinding the spring of an ongoing watch
That the night would wind up again.
A coat was fastened over the chest
With a clasp and a…
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Elizaveta Polonskaya
Date:
1927