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Letter to Her Son
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Dear HeartSey I have Severall of yours bearing Variety of Dates as well as Subiect, In Wich I have had Vast deall of Delight relating to Some matters, Especialy that wich Concerns Your Self. Nothing…

Contributor:

Abigaill Levy Franks

Places:

New York City, British America and the British West Indies (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1743

Subjects:

Family, Parenthood, Children, Education, Food and drink

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Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Portrait painting of woman in dress sitting with her hands in lap.
An Order Concerning Rations
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To Elyashib: And now, give to the Kittim 1 bath and 3 hin of wine and write the date. And from the surplus of the best flour you shall load 1 kor (?) to make bread for them. From the wine of the…

Places:

Arad, Land of Israel (Tel ‘Arad, Israel)

Date:

Late 7th–Early 6th Century BCE

Subjects:

Military, Food and drink, Gentiles, Archaeology

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Pottery fragment with Hebrew inscription.
The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York
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Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people’s minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and…

Contributor:

Claudia Roden

Places:

Hampstead, United Kingdom

Date:

1996

Subjects:

Mizrahi, Food and drink, Jewish identity, Diaspora

Categories:

Food & drink, Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries
Photograph in two parts: on the left, two women in head coverings are preparing food at a stove; on the right, two people are around a table while a woman brushes a young girl's hair.