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Ze’ev Raban
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1925
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Yesterday, I dumped on my son the following story:
That my father was a cyclops and, of course, had one eye,
That my fifteen brothers wanted to devour me,
So, I barely got myself out of their…
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Jacob Glatstein
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1929
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All the Jewish children’s homes and live-in kindergartens that Robi Singer had been attending since the age of four had something in common. Besides a birth certificate and vaccination papers, they…
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György Dalos
Date:
1990
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He will surely come with songs of joy, carrying the child, in the full assembly. My friends, wait here for the bridegroom of blood.
He should be coming down the road. Why is the child so late? You…
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Joseph Bibas
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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Toward the end of the first century, in the spring of the last year of the reign of the Emperor Vespasian, two entries were made in the Roman archives of the district of Galilee. The first…
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Milton Steinberg
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1939
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
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17th Century
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Johannes Buxtorf
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Basel, Swiss Confederacy
(Basel, Switzerland)
Date:
1661
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When I was born, Robert G. Mehlman was at the peak of his glory. He was more than a major talent. But within five years there wasn’t much of that glory left, and my mother sometimes compared him to a…
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Arnon Grunberg
Places:
London, United Kingdom
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
2000
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New York, 28 May, 1753
Mr. Aaron Lopez
Dear Sir:
I have received your esteemed letter, in which you so kindly inform me that our Lord has given you a son. For this I extend the due felicitations to…
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Aaron Lopez, Benjamin Gomez
Places:
(New York, United States of America)
Date:
1753–1767
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A few days after receiving your precious letter of 5 November 1854, I began collating [the pages of my book], which took me until New Year’s eve to finish. But what a chasm in between! I began the…
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Daniel Khvolson
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
ca. 1855