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The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: Maskilic View of Heder
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I must now say something of the condition of the Jewish schools in general. The school is commonly a small smoky hut, and the children are scattered, some on benches, some on the bare earth. The…

Contributor:

Solomon Maimon

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1792–1793

Subjects:

Education, Children, Bible, Jewish languages

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography
The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln
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It is not a grave that opens up to us in this book, but a human heart. the memoirs that are now seeing the light for the first time would have deserved to be published a long time…

Contributor:

David Kaufmann

Places:

Germany, Germany

Date:

1896

Subjects:

Women, Family, Children, Mourning

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries
Letter to His Mother
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May the Lord who dwells in Zion protect you from any grief and sorrow. To my beloved mother, the crown of my head, the pious Mrs. Rachel, may she live long. [ . . . ] You should know, my dear mom…

Contributor:

Moses Sussman Zarit

Places:

Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)

Date:

ca. 1560

Subjects:

Family, Children, Parenthood, Plague, Education

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
Letter to Her Son
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Dear HeartSey I have Severall of yours bearing Variety of Dates as well as Subiect, In Wich I have had Vast deall of Delight relating to Some matters, Especialy that wich Concerns Your Self. Nothing…

Contributor:

Abigaill Levy Franks

Places:

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

Date:

1743

Subjects:

Family, Parenthood, Children, Education, Food and drink

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
Portrait painting of woman in dress sitting with her hands in lap.
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