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The Kinah [Lament] in Honor of Those Who Died in the Earthquake
Wail O [professional female] mourners for the suffering of our death.
The earth trembled with the earthquakes. We lost young and old…
Contributor:
Eliezer Farḥi
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1909
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Clothing is an art, and it requires talent from women and men alike. This talent, however, is innate to people. It is a talent that every woman and every man can develop by observing…
Contributor:
Tashrak (Yisroel Yosef Zevin)
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1912
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A terrible calamity on the great ocean
Happened to the ship Titanic at night
It crashed hard into an iceberg
Suddenly the ship began to sink,
The strongest, best ship in the world,
Carrying thousands…
Contributor:
Yehoshue Rayzner
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1913
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[ . . . ] I look upon this humble beginning as a potentially significant step. It is the first nonsectarian university which becomes the corporate responsibility of the Jewish community in America…
Contributor:
Abram L. Sachar
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Waltham, United States of America
Date:
1948
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Shulḥan ‘Aruk, a term taken over from early rabbinic exegesis in the Midrash and applied to one of the most influential, truly epochal literary creations of Jewish history, has a double or even triple…
Contributor:
Isadore Twersky
Places:
Cambridge, United States of America
Date:
1967