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Alberti: A Play in Five Acts
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 As Performed at the Charleston Theatre Alberti, Commander of the Florentine Army Lorenso D’Medici, surnamed the Magnificent Ippolito, betrothed to Antonia 

Contributor:

Isaac Harby

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Date:

1819

Subjects:

Death, Love, Women, Sephardic

Categories:

Performing Arts, Theater/Drama, Literature
The Pleasure Trip of Sweethearts Reunited after the Agonies of Love Unrequited in the City of Tiryaq in Iraq
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An Explanation of the Plot of this BookNaʿma is the daughter of a caïd of one of the regions in Iraq, and Nuʿman is her paternal first cousin, whom she married while her father was still alive. When…

Contributor:

Abraham Daninos

Places:

Algiers, French Algeria (Algiers, Algeria)

Date:

1847

Subjects:

Love, Women, Sephardic, Arabic

Categories:

Performing Arts, Theater/Drama, Literature
The Song of Our Forefather Jacob and His Sons
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I want to recount a beautiful tale. I ask that the men relax. Listen, and see how marvelous it is how merciful God restores justice for us. Jacob: He said to his son, I wanted to send you to find out…

Contributor:

Moses Samuel Konfino

Places:

Bucharest, Ottoman Empire (Bucharest, Romania)

Date:

1862

Subjects:

Slavery, Family, Sephardic, Children

Categories:

Performing Arts, Theater/Drama, Literature
The Fake Doctor
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A Play by Molière in One Act of Sixteen Scenes[Carlo, Esterina]Carlo:Is there any news, Esterina? Do you have any advice for me?Esterina:Why do you want advice? I have a lot of news for you…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1873

Subjects:

Love, Marriage, Sephardic, Family, Medicine

Categories:

Performing Arts, Theater/Drama, Literature