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The library should be set up in the center of the district it serves, preferably on a quiet street where there is less noise and dust. Dry premises must…
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OPE (Society for Promotion of Culture Among Jews in Russia)
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1914
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[Title Page]
And You Shall Cook and Eat (Deuteronomy 16:7)
Livre de Cuisines [Cookbook]
This book concerns all types of foods, appropriate for rich and poor, for holidays and other days. The composer…
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(Tunis, Tunisia)
Date:
1900
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The Molad is Wednesday evening, 10 minutes and 9 halakim on 6 [6:10.9 pm]
Iyar 5675—April 1915—Taurus—(29 days)
[Hebrew Date]
[Day of the week]
[Christian Date]
[Islamic Date]
1st
Thursday
Se…
Contributor:
Eliezer Ya‘akov Podhorzer
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Palestine
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1914
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The question of family names in general and of Jewish family names in particular is interesting in many ways. Unfortunately, Jewish scholarship has thus far devoted very little attention to this…
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Shmuel Veisenberg
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1929
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The Age Composition of the Population in the Researched Shtetlekh
The problem of organizing the work resources correctly and rationally is closely connected to the age composition of the population…
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Y. Osherovich
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(Minsk, Belarus)
Date:
1932
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At a meeting of the Elders and Parnassim this day Mr Heyman Levy paid the fine for refusing serving Parnass Last year, it was at the same time voted by…
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Shearith Israel
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(New York City, United States of America)
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1757–1758
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Established in 1616 as part of a yeshiva in Amsterdam, the Ets Ḥayim library continues to function to this day, making it the oldest operational Jewish library in the world. It moved to its current…
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1718/19 and 1732/33
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This is the line of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave, bore to Abraham. These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, in the order of their birth…
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Then Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests set to and rebuilt the Sheep Gate; they consecrated it and set up its doors, consecrating it as far as the Hundred’s Tower, as far as the Tower of…
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Persian Period, 6th–4th Century BCE
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The Lord came down in a cloud; He stood with him there, and proclaimed the name Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed: “The Lord! the Lord!a God compassionate and gracious, slow to…
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