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On the night of Simhat Torah 5575 [1814], the Seer closeted himself in his room on the second story of his home. The one window overlooking the wide Jewish street was open; it was very near to the…
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Alexander Zederbaum
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1867
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I had been living in tranquility in my home, refreshed in my sanctuary, my palace, in the holy congregation of Prague for some twenty-eight years after they had chosen me from the assembly to be a…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1645
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There are two sorts of biography: the biography a famous person writes for his admirers, because the public likes to know everything about celebrities, and [the] autobiography, usually written because…
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Moses Leib Lilienblum
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1873
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No, we will not have children. Sometimes, with the passing of generations, a generation arises that takes for itself all the wellsprings of life that eternity prepared for an eternity without leaving…
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Rachel Katznelson-Shazar
Places:
Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1918