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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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“You are angry about the language into which my book has been translated? You sound like chirping birds and clattering animals and wild beasts in the forest! Kindly recall, my dear friend! What…
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Jacob Samuel Bick
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Brody, Austrian Empire (Brody, Ukraine)
Date:
1815
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When, through God’s guiding grace,
The prophet Joshua and the Hebrews
Encamped before the town of Jericho,
Besieging it from every side,
They…
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‘Imrānī
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Isfahan, Ottoman Empire (Isfahan, Iran)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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Now, my dear friends, do you see what you’re doing? The Holy Days indulged in arrogant boasting, in envy and hatred and warfare. Hanukkah tried to fight them all and carry the day…
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Zalman Sofer
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Oldendorf, Holy Roman Empire (Oldendorf, Germany)
Date:
1517
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According to the Torah, a man can acquire a woman in one of three ways:
Through a document, through silver, or through intercourse. God is the one that gives a prudent wife.
In truth, one must begin…
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Judah Alkaletz
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Algiers, Ottoman Empire (Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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Asleep in songs and lullabies was my heart, while I was dreaming, imagining myself amidst poets, as eloquent and intelligent as the finest wine yeast.From my drunken slumber an illustrious man awoke…
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Leone Modena
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1599
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[Curtain]Narrator [entering and about to speak when he hears voices behind the scrim. Walking over, he peers through an opening in it]:How they weep, how they mourn,The wind-borne dead!No new…
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Y. L. Peretz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908
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And now, good friends, as we observe the adventures of Isaac, we are shaken and stunned. This Isaac who is no worse than any other person, why is he punished so harshly? Is it because he teased a dog…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1945
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The woman in charge came out of the children’s house and stationed herself on the grass, holding an infant in each arm. Children stood behind and in front of her, waiting for their parents, who were…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1971
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It was a winter day. The streets of Vienna were dirty and shrouded with the mud of the snows that were falling, only to be melted immediately under the feet of the passersby. A dense and heavy smoke…
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B. ha-Kohen
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Ottoman Empire (Türkiye, Turkey)
Date:
1910