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On the day of my abundant joy
illness suddenly overcame me
Birth pangs and rupture
overwhelmed me
I gave birth and died, like a blossom
I turned away
And the fruit of my womb was
brought with me to…
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Rebecca Henriquez da Costa
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Cassipora, Dutch Colonial Empire (Cassipora, Suriname)
Date:
1771
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Neḥama wife of Shalom Uri
Buried on Sunday, the 11th of Tevet 5337
This stone is a witness between us:
That death has climbed up into our window:
And eclipsed the…
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
16th and 17th Centuries
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Here is a man who revered The Name with loveWhose name was known For his generous spiritHe gave to charity To failing soulsFrom his pocket and his wealth Until…
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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17th and 18th Centuries
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Italics indicate that the text was written in Hebrew, not Portuguese.
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The Jewish Community of Curaçao
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Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)
Date:
Early 18th Century
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I besieged and captured Samaria. I took as spoil 27,290 people who live there; I organized (a contingent of) fifty of their chariots and I instructed the rest of them in correct conduct. I appointed…
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Dur-Sharrukin, Assyria (Khorsabad, Iraq)
Date:
722–705 BCE
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Year 7. The month Kislev. The king of Akkad mobilized his troops and marched to Hatti.
He encamped against the city of Judah and in the month Adar, day 2, he captured the city; he seized the king. He…
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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
Date:
598–597 BCE
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In the eponymate of Dayan-Ashur, on the 14th of Aiaru (Iyyar), I set out from Nineveh . . .
I set out from the Euphrates and approached Aleppo. They (i.e., the inhabitants of Aleppo) were afraid of…
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Kurkh, Assyria (Üçtepe, Türkiye)
Date:
853–824 BCE
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Gravestone of honorable old lady Sra Rachel, wife of the wealthy citizen the honorable R. Jacob Fernandes Gill, deceased, seventh day of Passover, 22 Nisan 5486May her soul be…
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Jamaica, British America and the British West Indies (Jamaica)
Date:
17th and 18th Centuries
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[This is the grave] of the blessed, revered, and God-fearing Abraham Baruh Henriques, who, in his life, sustained this Holy Synagogue of Nidhe Israel and protected it with…
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Barbados, British America and the British West Indies (Barbados)
Date:
1700–1750
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The land of Bit-Humria (the House of Omri) . . .
[ . . . his] auxiliary [troops . . . ] all of its people . . . to Assyria I carried off. Pekah, their king, [I/they ki]lled . . . and I appointed…
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Assyria (Iraq)
Date:
745–727 BCE