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Letter from Rebecca Samuel to Her Parents
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Dear Parents: I hope my letter will ease your mind. You can now be reassured and send me one of the family to Charleston, South Carolina. This is the place to which, with God’s help, we will go after…

Contributor:

Rebecca Samuel

Places:

Petersburg, United States of America

Date:

ca. 1792

Subjects:

Migration, Economic life, Family, Jewish identity, Holidays, Letters

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Firsthand accounts, Letters
Letter
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And so let it be known to your Excellency what happened to the letter that your Excellency sent me with the etrogs [citrons]. The letter was not handed to me until the [week of the] Sabbath of Vayetze…

Contributor:

Asenath Barazani

Places:

Mosul, Ottoman Empire (Mosul, Iraq)

Date:

Early 17th Century

Subjects:

Holidays, Sukkot, Women, Polemics, Economic life, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
Purim Letters
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Mordecai recorded these events. And he sent dispatches to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Ahasuerus, near and far, charging them to observe the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE

Subjects:

Purim, Writing, Holidays, Diaspora, Food and drink, Letters

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Firsthand accounts, Letters
Letter
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In the name of the Lord: My brothers and my friends, the inhabitants of Albanian Belgrade [Berat, Albania]: may all who are worthy merit seeing the salvation of the Lord. Hurry and send me the maḥzor…

Contributor:

Shabbetai Tzvi

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1666

Subjects:

Messianism, Holidays, Tishah be-Av, Community, Bible, Letters, Prophets & prophecy

Categories:

Prophetic Literature, Letters