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At first Berka had avoided Hershl, but the latter persisted in his visits to Berka’s workshop, ignoring his deliberate rudeness. While Hershl spoke to him Berka hammered away at his last in silence…
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Rose Zwi
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Johannesburg, South Africa
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1980
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It was in the early eighteenth century (1700–1706) when some Ottoman Jews of Spanish and Portuguese origin left Turkey to settle in Vienna. A chronicle has preserved for us the names of the three…
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Moïse Franco
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Paris, France
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1897
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Twelve-year old Ivan Demitrov, a fourth-grade student in the Bulgarian school, was scolded by his Bulgarian teacher for not sitting still in school on Friday, the tenth of this month. After playing in…
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Joseph Barishac
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Edirne, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Turkey)
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1912
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1. Giedymin, the great prince of Lithuania, who dwelt in the fortress of the city of Troki, once went forth…
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Samuel Joseph Fuenn
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1860
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The Hebrews have been taught and instructed more than any other nation in the school of hardship under the rigorous discipline of that necessity, because they are deprived of real estate, forbidden…
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Simone Luzzatto
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1638