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One day I came back from my synagogue and sat down in my room to take breakfast—a bowl of milk and some bread, instead of the compote juice and butter cake that had been my customary…
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Mordechai Aaron Gintsburg
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1863
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I was born on Saturday, 7 March 1936, towards nine in the evening, in a maternity clinic located at 19 Rue de l’Atlas, in the xixth arrondissement of Paris. My father, I believe, was the one who…
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Georges Perec
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Paris, France
Date:
1975
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As for myself, I was constantly going back in my studies as well as in manners and conduct. After a while, my father decided to send me to Prague, which was a day’s journey. My older brother was also…
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Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1685
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Behold, I am aged and my eyes are dim and my hands heavy and shaky, and at a time when my strength, enabling me to remain standing upon my watch, is ebbing away—with the yoke of the…
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Pinchas Katzenellenbogen
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Boskovice, Holy Roman Empire (Boskovice, Czech Republic)
Date:
1760
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I was the fourth [child] born and the first son, a tender darling to my father and my mother (cf. Prov. 4:3) after my mother had given birth to three daughters. My parents were worriers and trembled…
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Jacob Emden
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Altona, Denmark (Altona, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1762–1770
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That year my wife, Hannah, became extremely ill and one Sabbath she was in a coma and close to death. At night, at the conclusion of the Sabbath, we approached her to witness the departure of the…
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Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century
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When [Isaac Luria] was sick, he blessed each companion with a suitable blessing for him, in accordance with the spark of his soul. R. Ḥayim Vital was not there with them at the time of the blessing…
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Unknown
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1534–1572
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Through the large portal of “The Jewish Gauchos,” one of the most moving literary tributes to the Republic in the first hundred years after the May Revolution of 1810, Dr. Noé Yarcho, the “miracle…
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Pablo Schvartzman
Places:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date:
1963
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Remember me, O my God, for the good (Nehemiah 5:19). Amen
I began to write the first Torah Scroll, with the help of God, today, 2 Heshvan, the twenty-second of October, in the year 5302 [1541]. It…
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Meir ben Ephraim of Padua
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1541–1580
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The bathroom looked as though some spiteful thug had left his calling card after having robbed the house. As my father was tended to and he was what counted, I would just as soon have nailed the door…
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Philip Roth
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1991