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Many good, blessed and pleasant years, may they surely come to you and to your head and hairs! To the hands of my lovely, dear, beloved husband, the pious and prudent, worthy R. Loeb, may his Rock and…
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Sarel bat Moses Gutman
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1619
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24 December. Sunday. [ . . . ]
This morning my nephew’s circumcision. A short, bow-legged man, Austerlitz, who already has 2,800 circumcisions behind him, deftly executed the affair. The oper is…
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Franz Kafka
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Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1911
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To be given to my dearly beloved and pleasant son-in-law—who fears sin and all whose deeds are worthy—the respected Mr. Falk.
He who delivers this letter, on him be blessing.
From the holy community…
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Barukh Reiniger
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1619
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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
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1645