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Dor ve-dorshav (A Generation and Its Seekers)
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Now when I was a young lad, sitting amidst the dust of the feet of those bound up with the houses of study, I would never hear them speaking anything sensible about the Hasidim, explaining and…

Contributor:

Samuel Joseph Fuenn

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1879

Subjects:

Hasidism, Halakhah, Prayer & liturgy, Rabbis, Talmud, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography
Ani ha-mekhuneh (I Am the Man They Call)
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I am the man they call, at times, mem-bet-aleph, which are the [Hebrew] initials of Michael ben Abraham. At other times I am called aleph-mem-koph: Abraham Michael Cardozo. I am of the Marranos of…

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Abraham Michael Cardoso

Places:

Tripoli, Ottoman Empire (Tripoli, Lebanon)

Date:

ca. 1668

Subjects:

Mysticism, Torah study, Talmud, Gentiles, Messianism, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography