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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

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
Vilna
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Vilna, my great matriarch, an established Jewish city, Jerusalem of the Exile, an ancient nation’s consolation in the north! This [poem] is your patched kerchief, like the roof of the old synagogue,…

Contributor:

Zalman Shneour

Places:

Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1923

Subjects:

Diaspora, Cities, Synagogue, Holidays, Theology

Categories:

Poetry