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Naboth’s Vineyard
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Act II, Scene 3Jezebel [Goes up to meet Ahab]:You have seen a conversion yourself? Do tell me!Ahab [Bewildered]:Oh Jezebel! I am dying! I cannot breathe![Sinks into a chair.]What is this? Am I seeing…

Contributor:

Avraam Papo

Places:

Ottoman Empire (Bulgaria, Bulgaria)

Date:

1898

Subjects:

Inheritance, Rural life, Economic life, Prophets, Mysticism

Categories:

Literature, Theater/Drama, Performing Arts
Introduction to the Commentary on Numbers—Me’am Lo’ez by Isaac Magriso
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The introduction to the first volume of this work, which you already have, explains that one must know what mitzvot God commanded us to perform, and what he obliged us to avoid, to find…

Contributor:

Me’am Lo’ez

Places:

Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)

Date:

1764

Subjects:

Bible, Economic life, Print, Talmud, Aggadah

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology, Biblical Commentary
How Does a Newspaper Survive?
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In order to survive, a newspaper needs numerous subscribers, the help of the community, paid publications, the aid of the friends of education, the generosity of the nation, and the support of the…

Contributor:

Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1877

Subjects:

Scholarship, Economic life, Ladino, Community, Sephardic

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Literature, Journalism, Firsthand Accounts
Crónica de los reyes otomanos (Chronicle of the Ottoman Kings)
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The houses and rooms of the inhabitants of this most famous city are one or the other of two extremes: the good ones are sumptuous houses at the height of perfection and…

Contributor:

Moses Almosnino

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1567

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish quarters, Economic life, Women, Ethnography

Categories:

History