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Almanac for the Year 5675
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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

Subjects:

Calendar, Holidays, Jewish identity, Prayer, Torah study

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Firsthand Accounts, Lists & Catalogues, History
Facing pages with Yiddish text in columns and some French and English text in margins.
From Volozhin to Jerusalem
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Even in the past, some thirty to forty years ago, when Jewish life in Russia was still very conservative, there was a difference between those cities and towns located…

Contributor:

Meir Berlin

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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1933

Subjects:

Assimilation, Enlightenment, Holidays, Rabbis, Education

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Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, History, Historical Writing
Purim Letters
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Mordecai recorded these events. And he sent dispatches to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Ahasuerus, near and far, charging them to observe the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar…

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Land of Israel (Israel)

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Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE

Subjects:

Purim, Writing, Holidays, Diaspora, Food and drink

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Firsthand Accounts, Letters, Literature