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‘Ets ḥayim (Tree of Life)
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These are the generations of Isaac ben ḥayim ben Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac (Genesis 25:19) ben Joseph among the kohanim who trace their family back to Pinehas, son of Eliezer, son of Aaron the…

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Isaac ben Ḥayim ha-Kohen

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

First Half of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Travel, Exile, Christian-Jewish relations, Poverty, Torah study

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography, Travel Writing
A Shtetl Is Starving to Death
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Not far from Lódz is a small town called Brzezhin. It has been a town of tailors from the beginning of time. When it was under Russian rule, Brzezhin was a center for manufacturing cheap clothes for…

Contributor:

Henryk Erlich

Places:

Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1933

Subjects:

Capitalism, Health, Hunger, Poverty, Shtetl

Categories:

Political Culture, Reportage, Journalism, Firsthand accounts
Minḥat Yehudah (The Offering of Judah): Commentary on Ma‘arekhet ha-elohut (The Divine Hierarchy)
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When I Judah, the son of my master, the wise and righteous R. Jacob ḥayyat, peace be upon him, was in Spain, I tasted a little honey, and my eyes were enlightened. And I took it upon myself to seek…

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Judah Ḥayyat

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

ca. 1495–1498

Subjects:

Mysticism, Exile, Hunger, Poverty, Oral Torah

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography
Letter to a Nursing Convention in St. Louis
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From Rose Kaplan, Nurse in Charge of District Visiting Nursing in Jerusalem, for the Hadassah Chapter, Daughters of Zion. Miss Landy and I, nurses for the Daughters of Zion of America, send…

Contributor:

Rose Kaplan

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem)

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Health, Medicine, Poverty, Mizrahi, Israel/Israelis

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters