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“Blessed be He who shows loving kindness to the undeserving, for he requited me with every kindness” in the dead of night, on Monday, in the early morning of the 9th of Kislew…
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Asher Halevi of Reichshofen
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Alsace, France
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1625–1629
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Now comes the turn, with awe and reverence, awe and reverence without end, of my father, the pious, God-fearing, learned one, may his strength be for the Torah [see Esther 2:15], the supernal light…
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Shabbetai Sheftel Horowitz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
17th Century
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I was sitting next to Brodsky, and Sonnenshein was sitting opposite us, near the back of the truck. From the moment we had crossed into Germany, something had happened to him. His pipe never left his…
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Hanoch Bartov
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1965
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[ . . . ] Let us return to my maternal grandmother, Matte, of blessed memory. After she married off my late aunt Ulk, she was left penniless with the fatherless child my mother, may she live…
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Glikl bas Leyb Hamel
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1719
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All of us—dying here in polar, ice-cold indifference of nations, forgotten by the world and its hustle and bustle—have nonetheless felt the need to leave something for posterity: if not complete…
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Avraham Levite
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Auschwitz-Birkenau, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland)
Date:
1945