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The Third Cry in Anguish in Salonika
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My feet walk the streets of this blessed city, Only yesterday full of faithful adherents of Sinai. My eyes do not have the courage to look up. The bitterness of my soul is great, O Holy God! I…

Contributor:

Yehuda Haim Aaron HaCohen Perahia

Places:

Salonika, Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1943

Subjects:

Cities, Theology, Holocaust, Mourning, Eschatology

Categories:

Poetry, Literature, Memoirs & Diaries
The Mystical Autobiography of a Sephardic Woman from Salonika
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One afternoon a friend from class asked me a religious question. After I answered her, she remarked that it was curious that our teacher had not been able to answer the same question. “Don’t be so…

Contributor:

Reina ha-Kohen

Places:

Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Christian-Jewish relations, Education, Antisemitism, Piety

Categories:

Literature, Memoirs & Diaries, (Auto)biography