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[ . . . ] But before we come to analyze the dreadful calamity [i.e., the drought] that has befallen us, and before we come to see what is the putrid humor harbored in our midst…
Contributor:
Shimon Aghasi
Places:
Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1912
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From the day that God confused all the languages of the land [see Genesis 11:9], through the bitter and rapid exile of the expulsion from Spain, since then all good things have ended for us; our glory…
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Abraham Ibn Ya‘ish
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1505/6
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I had been living in tranquility in my home, refreshed in my sanctuary, my palace, in the holy congregation of Prague for some twenty-eight years after they had chosen me from the assembly to be a…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1645