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Born in Livorno, Tuscany, in 1656, Hezekiah ben David de Silva was a scholar best known for his halakhic work Peri ḥadash (New Fruit). De Silva studied in Syria and later headed a yeshiva in Jerusalem…
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1690
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Ira Jan
It is my task to introduce to the readers of Múlt és Jövő (Past and Future) to an extraordinary Jewish woman, and it is hard to tell whether she is a greater writer or artist. Those who say…
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Imre (Dunajecz Jakab) Abadi
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa, Israel)
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1914
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It is not enough to see a statue. A statue has to be sensed with the fingertips. In our imagination we touch the statue, caress it, examine its rounded and hollow surfaces, and by doing so our sense…
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Ḥaim Gamzu
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1957