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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…

Contributor:

Moses Wasserzug

Places:

Płock, Kingdom of Prussia (Płock, Poland)

Date:

ca. 1820

Subjects:

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

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography, Memoirs & diaries
Letter to Yemenite Chief Rabbi Shalom Iraqi
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To the city of Yemen, Sheikh Shalom, on the 4th of Shevat [9th January 1742] from the Constantinople officials, may the Lord protect them. The son of a valiant man, who had done mighty deeds, of…

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Constantinople Officials

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1742

Subjects:

Government, Economic life, Cities, Israel-Diaspora relations, Charity, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters