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In my cottage was I one day
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In my cottage was I one day merrily Despite the Fortune full of treachery. “What are you doing?” Providence asked me. “Why are you obsessed only with this life? You must also know of the…

Contributor:

Yuāsuf Yahuādīā

Places:

Khanate of Bukhara (Bukhara, Uzbekistan)

Date:

1749

Subjects:

Writing, Memory, Bible, War, Hasmoneans

Categories:

Literature, Popular Poetry, Firsthand Accounts
Testament (New York)
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In the name of God Amen I Rachel Luis being sick of body but of sound mind and Memory Do make this my last will and Testamit in manner and form following that is to say I wish and order that after my…

Contributor:

Rachel Luis

Places:

New York City, British America and the British West Indies (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1737

Subjects:

Will & testament, Inheritance, Charity, Memory

Categories:

Law, Wills, Testaments & Bequests, Firsthand Accounts
Memorial to a Shtetl
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Far, far from the paved roads and broad ways, far, far from the ordinary shtetls, stood isolated villages that had a different sky over them and a different sun. The God of heaven in His mercy made…

Contributor:

Hillel Zeitlin

Places:

Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1919

Subjects:

Shtetl, Memorial, Theology, Dreams, Memory

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries
Vave ha-‘amudim (Hooks of the Columns)
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Now comes the turn, with awe and reverence, awe and reverence without end, of my father, the pious, God-fearing, learned one, may his strength be for the Torah [see Esther 2:15], the supernal light…

Contributor:

Shabbetai Sheftel Horowitz

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Family, Parenthood, Children, Rabbis, Memory

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography, Memoirs & Diaries