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Letters
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I often said to a younger girl friend: “If you are marrying without love, after all, do not talk to your husband. Please him as much as your nature can tolerate; do not argue with…

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Rahel Levin Varnhagen

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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1799–1800

Subjects:

Marriage, Love, Salon, Women, Letters

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Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Letters
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Statement of Mourning
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Do you deem me to be hard and evil-hearted in that I should hasten to do a match during my period of mourning? Am I to forget the love of the wife of my youth, my pure dove, whom God graciously gave…

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Akiva Eger

Places:

Märkisch Friedland, Kingdom of Prussia (Mirosławiec, Poland)

Date:

1796

Subjects:

Mourning, Marriage, Economic life, Rabbis, Letters

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Firsthand accounts, Letters
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Letter to George Washington
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Deprived as we heretofore have been of the invaluable rights of free citizens, we now (with a deep sense of gratitude to the Almighty disposer of all events) behold a government erected by the Majesty…

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Moses Seixas

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Date:

1790

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Politics, Government, Colonialism, Christian-Jewish relations, Letters

Categories:

Historical writing, Political Culture, Letters, Firsthand accounts
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Letter from Fromet to Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, 18 July 1777 Berlin, 13 Tammuz 5537 Dear Moses, may you live, I hope that my letter will find you happy and in good spirits in Königsberg. We are all, thank G-d, well and alive, and when you…

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Fromet Guggenheim

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1777

Subjects:

Family, Leisure, Parenthood, Love, Orphans, Letters

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Firsthand accounts, Letters
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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…

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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, Letters

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Firsthand accounts, Letters
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