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Memoirs
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For the two reasons specified below, I have given myself the surname “Wasserzug”; the first reason is that when I was five or six years of age, I was playing with some young children, I believe, in a…

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Moses Wasserzug

Places:

Płock, Kingdom of Prussia (Płock, Poland)

Date:

ca. 1820

Subjects:

Adolescence, Family, Education, Charity, Economic life, (Auto)biography

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Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography, Memoirs & diaries
Kore’ ha-dorot (Reader for the Generations)
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And after the rabbi [Joseph Karo] went to Safed he studied in the study house of the rabbi, our master, Jacob Berab, and became a disciple of our master R. Berab, as is written in several places. The…

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David Conforte

Places:

Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)

Date:

1678

Subjects:

Rabbis, Yeshiva, Education, Charity, Kabbalah

Categories:

Historical writing, Firsthand accounts
Noe Yarcho, Physician to the Jewish Gauchos
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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

Subjects:

Health, Diaspora, Migration, Charity, (Auto)biography, Education

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography