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Memoirs of a Jewish Colonist
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I. Of Pimps, Prostitutes, and Other SeducersWe saw some ten richly-dressed women, accompanied by fat-bellied men in top hats, standing at the green metal gate of the immigrants’ hotel. Through the…

Contributor:

Mordechai Alpersohn

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Date:

1922

Subjects:

Migration, Synagogue, Prostitution, Purity, Sabbath

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries
Seder mitzvot ha-nashim (The Order of Women’s Commandments): On Marital Relations
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It should be known that after her immersion, every woman should persuade her husband and see to it that he study before he lies with her. And so we find it written regarding Boaz, “And Boaz ate…

Contributor:

Benjamin Slonik

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1577

Subjects:

Women, Piety, Sabbath, Food and drink, Purity

Categories:

Law, Rabbinic Law