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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1729
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Nicolas de Nicolay
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1568
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The Sultan Selim loved the Jews very much, for he realized that with their help he could strike nations and kill mighty kings. [ . . . ] And it came to pass on the third day, when the…
Contributor:
Elijah Capsali
Places:
Candia, Republic of Venice
(Heraklion, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1523
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In the days of Antigonus, in about 3160 of creation, roughly 52 of the second rule of Ptolemy II over…
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Gedaliah Ibn Yaḥya
Places:
Alessandria, Duchy of Milan
(Alessandria, Italy)
Date:
1587
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Wife of Menahem Levi Meshullami Simḥah
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1680/1
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This poem says that wellbeing [shalom] is ours, since we have God as our king, and we have the Torah, whose paths are wellbeing, even though we have acted wrongly and have been trapped by bad hatred…
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Joseph Yedidya Carmi
Places:
Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
(Modena, Italy)
Date:
1626
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Question: Reuven has a single daughter, soft and delicate, whom he married to Ḥanokh ben Judah with a dowry of a thousand sultanish. The bride is twelve years old, and in her father’s home she was…
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Joseph Karo
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1542
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And it came to pass in the days of Sultan Murad [IV], King of Turkey, may his majesty be exalted, in the third year of his reign, which is the year 5385 from creation [1625], the upright prince…
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Unknown
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1627
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Now we shall begin to describe the confrontation of the King of Sweden with the King of Poland. First, the aforementioned King of Sweden came to the holy community of Posen [Poznań], a major Jewish…
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Samuel Feibush
Places:
Venice, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Poland)
Date:
1655
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Since animals do not use these faculties [strength, speed, or cunning] for the purpose of [gaining] their livelihood, this shows that that which a man does with the strength of his body, and the sweat…
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Judah Loew
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1599