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This print depicting a veiled Jewish bride assisted by two other women is from the beginning of the eighteenth century, a period of prosperity for the city’s Jewish community. There were between 350…
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Johannes Alexander Böner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1705
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I request my husband to dispose as follows:I would wish to be able to give my family in Berlin the capital of 10,000 gulden held for me by my husband . . . my pearls, as my favorite pieces of jewelery…
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Fanny von Arnstein
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1793
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I was sent to school at Iwenez, about fifteen miles from our abode, and here I began to study Talmud. The study of the Talmud is the chief object of a learned education among our people. Riches…
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Solomon Maimon
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1792–1793
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This print depicting a Jewish wedding in Fürth is from the beginning of the eighteenth century, a period of prosperity for the city’s Jewish community. There were between 350 and 400 Jewish families…
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Johannes Alexander Böner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1705
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Judith:Ev’rything lies deep in shadow.[She feels her way forward.][She shudders.]The walls are sweating.Tell me BluebeardWhy this moisture on my fingers?Walls and rafters, all are weeping.[She covers…
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Béla Balázs
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1911
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It is a not a simple cookbook that I am presenting herewith to my sisters in faith, although most room is given to the “kitchen.” This book of Cooking and Home Economics [Koch- und…
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Flora Wolff
Places:
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1888