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Memoirs of a Jewish Colonist
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I. Of Pimps, Prostitutes, and Other SeducersWe saw some ten richly-dressed women, accompanied by fat-bellied men in top hats, standing at the green metal gate of the immigrants’ hotel. Through the…

Contributor:

Mordechai Alpersohn

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1922

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Migration, Synagogue, Prostitution, Purity, Sabbath

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Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries
Shalshelet ha-kabbalah (The Chain of Tradition): On Spirits
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Now, after God has made known to you all of this by means of the toil of my hands, having gathered and bound them together, may the strength of my hand grow to write to you and to present before you…

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Gedaliah Ibn Yaḥya

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Mid–16th Century

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Mysticism, Health, Women, Purity, Christian-Jewish relations

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Magic & Mysticism, Mystical Texts, Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries
Dispatch of Food
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[Greetings, PN,] from [PN]. [No]w, I [sen]t to you, saying: “Do not dispatch to me bread without it being sealed.” Lo, all the jars are impure. Behold, the bread which [you] dispatch[ed] to me…

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Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)

Date:

Early 5th Century BCE

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Archaeology, Food and drink, Purity, Kashrut, Diaspora

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Firsthand Accounts, Letters