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In this seventeenth-century map, Jerusalem is depicted as a fairly dense city within a wall, with only a few structures outside. Men in Arab dress stand in small groups conversing with one another in…
The current expenses of the city of Jerusalem, may it be speedily rebuilt and reestablished in our days, are close to five thousand kuruş per annum. This is not the case for Safed and Hebron. In the…
It was in the early eighteenth century (1700–1706) when some Ottoman Jews of Spanish and Portuguese origin left Turkey to settle in Vienna. A chronicle has preserved for us the names of the three…
A month after the birth of future Emperor Joseph II (March 13, 1741), the Jews of Prague held a festive procession in honor of the happy event. The procession, which was planned and led by the…
Then Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests set to and rebuilt the Sheep Gate; they consecrated it and set up its doors, consecrating it as far as the Hundred’s Tower, as far as the Tower of…
I had recently published my work Ḥeker davar, and for other reasons, I was compelled to seek out the city of my birth, Vilna, and…
In the days of Antigonus, in about 3160 of creation, roughly 52 of the second rule of Ptolemy II over Egypt…
At present there are approximately three hundred homeowners, and almost twelve hundred people, in Jerusalem, may it be rebuilt and reestablished. This about the situation you will find at any point in…
1. Giedymin, the great prince of Lithuania, who dwelt in the fortress of the city of Troki, once went forth…
As for the number of the Jews, one cannot precisely determine it, not even having firm knowledge of the places in which they dwell. Regarding the ten tribes that were captured by…