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Another week had passed. The two men had just gone off together. With something of an annoyed laugh, his mother went to the door and stood fingering the catch of the lock. Finally she lifted it…
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Henry Roth
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New York City, United States of America
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1934
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Isaac bar Yuda Reutlingen
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1580–1600
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Catherine da Costa
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain
(London, United Kingdom)
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1745
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Lauren Greenfield
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Los Angeles, United States of America
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1993
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A baby that has fallen from a high place and become mute, his mother should take his hand and place it in her womb and afterwards thrust that hand into the mouth of the baby. After that, the woman…
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Joel Ba‘al Shem Heilprin
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Zamość, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Zamość, Poland)
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16th Century
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Lord of the world, my God,
I humbly beg You, with a broken heart,
And with my weak body,
To confirm my baby in Torah,
As a person of honor and riches.…
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Anonymous
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1648
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Charlotte Salomon
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1941–1943
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1709
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Eighteenth-century German amulet printed with unique designs. The use of the names of the three angels, Sanoi, Sansanoi, and Smangalaf, indicates the use of this amulet as a birth protection for…
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1750
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My father lived to be ninety-eight, and until the end of his life he never failed to introduce my sister and me with a grand gesture as his “two disappointments.” We were, very simply put, an…
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Ruth Gay
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1996