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The Golem
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Dear readers! I am giving you a rare and precious treasure, which has hitherto been lying in a library for three hundred years. Jews have always been thinking and talking about this treasure…

Contributor:

Yudl Rosenberg

Places:

Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1909

Subjects:

Islam, Muslim-Jewish relations, Music, Holidays

Categories:

Performing Arts, Firsthand Accounts, Advertisements
Chronicle on the Death of Sultan Osman II and the Reigns of Mustafa and Murad
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Sunday, 15th of the aforementioned month [Elul; 10.9.1623]. The Sipahis [feudal cavalrymen] and the Janissaries [professional infantry corps] and all the king’s slaves and ministers came to speak with…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1622–1624

Subjects:

Monarchy, Antisemitism, Blood libel, Holidays, Passover

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Firsthand Accounts