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And so let it be known to your Excellency what happened to the letter that your Excellency sent me with the etrogs [citrons]. The letter was not handed to me until the [week of the] Sabbath of Vayetze…

Contributor:

Asenath Barazani

Places:

Mosul, Ottoman Empire (Mosul, Iraq)

Date:

Early 17th Century

Subjects:

Holidays, Sukkot, Women, Polemics, Economic life, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
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Apples. That’s what New Yorkers of the 1930s remember. Apples of the Hesperides, neatly stalled on corner after corner, sold on the last trembling line of decency by men who were unwilling to beg…

Contributor:

Hortense Calisher

Places:

Date:

1972

Subjects:

Women, Class, Labor, Education, Economic life, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography