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And I have heard an amazing reason from an old man as to why music was absent from that feast [of King Ahasuerus], and I present it here, with a great number of additions to what I heard. These will…
Contributor:
Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz
Places:
Adrianople, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
16th Century
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The masterpiece of eighteenth-century Ladino literature is the encyclopedic commentary on the Bible, Me‘am lo‘ez (From a People of Foreign Tongue), by Jacob Huli, the first volume of which was…
Contributor:
Jacob Huli
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1730
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The introduction to the first volume of this work, which you already have, explains that one must know what mitzvot God commanded us to perform, and what he obliged us to avoid, to find…
Contributor:
Me’am Lo’ez
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1764