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Our Distant Brothers: Letters from Tunis
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Tunis, Rosh Ḥodesh Adar 5648When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they commit falsehood; and the thief enters in, and the troop of…

Contributor:

Shalom Flāḥ

Places:

Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunis, Tunisia)

Date:

1888

Subjects:

Education, Assimilation, Jewish identity, Adolescence

Categories:

Political Culture, Journalism, Reportage
Memories of the Meldar: An Ottoman Jew’s Early Education
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Did you go to a meldar as a child? Have any of you been so lucky and blessed? I am sure that, seeing these two questions, you will all object that you had no idea what a meldar was and that you went…

Contributor:

Alexander Benghiat

Places:

Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)

Date:

1920

Subjects:

Adolescence, Scholarship, Education, Memory, Sephardic

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Reportage
Memories of a Childhood Spent in Ottoman Bulgaria
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I understood very early that life is a serious business. I do not remember committing any of those childish pranks that everyone keeps in his distant memory. From the age of four I was sent to the mel…

Contributor:

Gabriel Arié

Places:

Davos, Switzerland

Date:

1906

Subjects:

Adolescence, Education, Jewish languages, Piety, Family

Categories:

Memoirs & diaries, Reportage