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The Sultan Selim loved the Jews very much, for he realized that with their help he could strike nations and kill mighty kings. [ . . . ] And it came to pass on the third day, when the…
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Elijah Capsali
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ca. 1523
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[ . . . ] The Portuguese king, eager to find some logical excuse to vex me, called for an investigation to see if the number…
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Samuel Usque
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1553
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In the days of Antigonus, in about 3160 of creation, roughly 52 of the second rule of Ptolemy II over…
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Gedaliah Ibn Yaḥya
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Alessandria, Duchy of Milan (Alessandria, Italy)
Date:
1587
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Nevertheless, I saw from the first that many people would open their mouths wide against me [see Psalms 22:14] and speak arrogantly against me and think it a sin on my part for my having written based…
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David Ganz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1592
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Behold I request of all standing at the gate to knock,
And he who wishes to enter deep within this composition of mine,
Let him understand and be wise and contemplate the introduction I have composed…
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Yeḥiel Heilperin
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Minsk, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Minsk, Belarus)
Date:
ca. 1697
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The German holy community of Amsterdam was founded in the year 5396 [1635/6]. This I discovered in a few pages of a book written by Maharam Maarsen, one of the first German Jews in…
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Menaḥem Man Amelander
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1743
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After these things, Ahmed Shaitan desired of the Jews a hundred and fifty thousand great gold pieces, and he also said, If ye bring them not quickly, I shall kill you with the sword. And when the Jews…
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Unknown
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
ca. 1524
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And it came to pass in the days of Sultan Murad [IV], King of Turkey, may his majesty be exalted, in the third year of his reign, which is the year 5385 from creation [1625], the upright prince…
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Unknown
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1627
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At that time, this story [parashah] was written: a great event happened to the Jews, which caused downfall such as never had been in the world before and never would occur again. They came before the…
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Se‘adya ha-Levi
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1667
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It was in the year 5457, which is the year 1109 in their calendar [1697 CE], in the month of Tevet, when the chill and the cold began and the water of the great river Ozo Sway [the Dnieper…
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David Leḥno
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Karasubazar, Crimean Khanate (Bilohirsk, Ukraine)
Date:
First Quarter of the 18th Century