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Without warning, on the 20th of April, 1749, at the end of the Passover Festival, Sunday, at about 17 hours [noon], I was kidnapped and taken away by force thanks to a false denunciation made against…

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Anna del Monte

Places:

Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)

Date:

1749

Subjects:

Conversion, Violence, Christian-Jewish relations, Crime, Women, (Auto)biography

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Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography, Memoirs & diaries
Memoirs of a Grandmother
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In these years of the 1880s, as anti-Semitism raged all over Russia, there were only two ways for the Jews. Either give up all that had become essential to them, in the name of Judaism; or take the…

Contributor:

Pauline Wengeroff

Places:

Russian Empire (Belarus, Belarus)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Antisemitism, Education, Conversion, Family, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Memoirs & diaries, (Auto)biography