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When I was born, I was given the name Manuel, after my grandfather, Manuel Alvares Pinto, as was said earlier. For this reason and because I was my father’s eldest son, my grandfather always had me…
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Isaac de Pinto
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1671
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In a dream, in a night vision, while [I was] asleep upon [my] bed during my imprisonment, a voice called in my ears. The voice was the voice of Jacob, like the voice of my father, may his memory be…
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Abraham Yagel
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1578
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I was born in July, 1626, in the French city of Tartas to my father Christopher de Lis and my mother Elisabeth de Pas. She nursed me with her own milk, taught, educated, and held me on her own lap…
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Isaac de Castro Tartas
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Lisbon, Portuguese Empire (Lisbon, Portugal)
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1645
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To be given to my dearly beloved and pleasant son-in-law—who fears sin and all whose deeds are worthy—the respected Mr. Falk.
He who delivers this letter, on him be blessing.
From the holy community…
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Barukh Reiniger
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1619
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[ . . . ] Let us return to my maternal grandmother, Matte, of blessed memory. After she married off my late aunt Ulk, she was left penniless with the fatherless child my mother, may she live…
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Glikl bas Leyb Hamel
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
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ca. 1719
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No, we will not have children. Sometimes, with the passing of generations, a generation arises that takes for itself all the wellsprings of life that eternity prepared for an eternity without leaving…
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Rachel Katznelson-Shazar
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1918