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Is It Befitting of Women to Demand Rights of Men?
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I read the serial article included in your esteemed periodical . . . signed by Dr. Amin Effendi al-Khuri; on finishing it, I realized that it had been written in response to an earlier article on the…

Contributor:

Esther Azhari Moyal

Places:

Ottoman Empire (Syria, Syria)

Date:

1894

Subjects:

Women, Feminism, Human rights, Modernity, Gender

Categories:

Political Culture, Journalism, Firsthand Accounts
Sefer kise Shelomoh (Solomon’s Throne)
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When our teacher Rabbi Solomon, who was a rabbi here in Aleppo, passed away without any male children, the rabbis [of the city] consulted among themselves, and with the elders of the people and the…

Contributor:

Raphael Laniado

Places:

Aleppo, Ottoman Empire (Aleppo, Syria)

Date:

1787

Subjects:

Rabbis, Leadership, Halakhah, Family, Scholarship

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography, Responsa, Law