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Gentlemen, having received incorrect information in the last column of the previous issue, we reported that the discords in our community had been settled. We also promised to give a detailed account…
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Rafael Uziel
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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1846
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Today for you all there is an opportunity more important than any that has ever before been given to you.
The boys out in France and Egypt are learning the value of their homes. We believe that they…
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Lily Montagu
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Littlehampton, United Kingdom
Littlehampton, United Kingdom
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1916
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I cannot express my thanks to the German Book Trade for the honor conferred on me without at the same time setting forth the sense in which I have accepted it, just as I earlier accepted the Hanseatic…
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Martin Buber
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Frankfurt am Main, West Germany (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1953
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God bless. Lida, 17th of Tammuz 5664To the distinguished editor, the great and wise rabbi, may his name be praised and glorified, etc., our teacher R. David Katzburg, publisher of the journal Tel…
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Yitsḥak Ya‘akov Reines
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Lida, Russian Empire (Lida, Belarus)
Date:
1903
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With the grace of God, Friday, before the Shabbat of the reading of Noah, 5672 [1911].
To our fellow Hasidim (in the city of Turov),
My stomach turned and my ears burned on hearing the terrible news…
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Israel Perlow
Places:
Stolin, Russian Empire (Stolin, Belarus)
Date:
1911
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I was privileged to visit Lublin with my late father when I was a boy of nine, and I saw his [the Seer’s] face illuminated like torches. And when he opened the door to recite Ke-gavnah [An Aramaic…
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Isaac Judah Yehiel Safrin of Komarno
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Komarno, Austrian Empire (Komarno, Ukraine)
Date:
1815
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This letter hailing Shabbetai Tzvi as the Messiah was signed by twenty-four prominent members of the Amsterdam Jewish community who had founded a learned society, Yeshuot Meshiho, in his honor. It was…
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Eliah ben Michael Judah Leon
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1666
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Free of any preoccupations, I allowed myself to seek out and investigate the Jews, their manners and customs. They are good-hearted folk, charitable and hospitable to strangers. They honor the Torah…
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Samuel Romanelli
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1792