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Discourse Delivered at the Consecration of the Synagogue of the Hebrew Congregation Mickve Israel, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, 21 July 1820
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Assembled as we are, to re-establish by commemoration, (2) the Congregation of this remnant or small portion of the house of Israel; your expectation of a brief sketch of our History, and particularly…

Contributor:

Jacob de la Motta

Places:

Savannah, United States of America

Date:

1820

Subjects:

Community, Migration, Diaspora, Colonialism, Cities

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Sermons, Political Culture
Discorso circa il stato de gl’Hebrei et in particolar dimoranti nell’inclita Citta di Venetia (Discourse on the Condition of the Jews, and in Particular Those Living in the Illustrious City of Venice): On the Jewish Population
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As for the number of the Jews, one cannot precisely determine it, not even having firm knowledge of the places in which they dwell. Regarding the ten tribes that were captured by…

Contributor:

Simone Luzzatto

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1638

Subjects:

Cities, Diaspora, Christian-Jewish relations, Government

Categories:

History, Political Culture
Jewish London
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A hundred thousand men, women, and children, some of them fugitives still suffering the punishment of Cain, others just sloughing the Ghetto skin, yet others in whose ears the “hep, hep” of the…

Contributor:

Simon Gelberg

Places:

London, United Kingdom

Date:

1901

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish identity, Nationalism, Diaspora, Jewish quarters

Categories:

Literature, Reportage
Brivenshteler: A Letter to a Friend in Russia about America
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Dear Friend,You asked me in your last letter to write about America, what kind of country it is and what life is like here. I had to smile as I read your words. [ . . . ]In order to describe America…

Contributor:

Shomer (Nokhem Meir Shaykevitch)

Places:

New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1895–1905

Subjects:

Migration, Writing, Cities, Diaspora

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Nehemiah’s Prayer
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The narrative of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Kislev of the twentieth year, when I was in the fortress of Shushan, Hanani, one of my brothers, together with some men of Judah, arrived…

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Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE

Subjects:

Jerusalem, Diaspora, Prayer, Leadership, Cities

Categories:

Literature, Prayer & Liturgy, Religion & Theology