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There is no city in the world which can bear comparison in point of interest with Jerusalem,—fallen, desolate, and abject even as it appears—changed as it has been…
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Judith Cohen Montefiore
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1836
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In 1930, Chaim Elazar Shapiro (Spira), the Hasidic rebbe of Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (today, Mukachevo, Ukraine), traveled by rail to Vienna and Trieste and by ship to Alexandria, where he and his…
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Moshe Goldstein
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Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)
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1930
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I had a very unusual fifteenth birthday. During my birthday week, the end of April, I was traveling with 5,000 high school students from around the world, visiting concentration camps in Poland. I…
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Dara Horn
Places:
Short Hills, United States of America
Date:
1992
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The River Jordan runs through the valley and empties into Great Salt Lake. The city is thirty miles from the Lake, and the valley is entirely surrounded with high mountains topped with snow, winter…
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Solomon Nunes Carvalho
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Salt Lake City, United States of America
Date:
1856