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And in the City of London we went to the Fort which is called the Tower, and there I saw lions and an eagle one hundred years old and a great snake from India and another snake and other wild beasts…
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Ḥayim Joseph David Azulai
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Hebron, Ottoman Empire (Hebron, West Bank)
Date:
Second Half of the 19th Century
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“Back at home, I pulled myself together and reflected on what had happened. Given how the people had behaved when they heard the wrongheaded and hateful rabbi’s curse of excommunication, I realized…
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Ludwig Philippson
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Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia (Magdeburg, Germany)
Date:
1854
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After finishing the letter, Elisheva handed it back to Hogeh and gracefully added: “Would that letters such as this might appear more often in our literature! For only such refinement of language will…
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Abraham Mapu
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1857–1864
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[ . . . ] Braendel dragged the poor woman into the smoky room, which stank of sweat, beer, and wine, and cried out in a loud voice, “Aren’t you ashamed, you children of honest Jews, to drink and…
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Alexandre Weill
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Paris, French Empire (Paris, France)
Date:
1860
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[ . . . ] The sofer’s work is poorly compensated. There is an old proverb about how the soferim never grow wealthy in the land of Israel. I don’t know who gave birth to that pearl detached from the…
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David Schornstein
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Paris, French Empire (Paris, France)
Date:
1864
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In the evening through her garden
Wanders the Alcalde’s daughter;
Festal sounds of drum and trumpet
Ring out hither from the castle.
“I am weary of the dances,
Honeyed words of adulation
From the…
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Heinrich Heine
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Göttingen, German Confederation (Göttingen, Germany)
Date:
1827
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Recently, Jewish feminists have turned toward the biblical figure of Miriam to expand women’s place in Jewish traditions. Penina Moïse anticipated the potential innovative role Miriam might play.
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Penina Moïse
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Charleston, United States of America
Date:
1833
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O God of Hosts, our God from of old,
Was it for this that You selected our ancestors from days of yore
That You took their descendants as an inheritance for Yourself
To set them up as the target of…
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Abraham Dov (Adam) ha-Kohen Lebensohn
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1842
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When the bell rang, he heard Norman shout, “If that’s that shit Levy, tell him to piss off.”
Rabbi Zweck knew that Dr Levy must have heard through the door and he began apologising on his son’s behalf…
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Bernice Rubens
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1969
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And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.—Job 19:26O the chimneysOn the ingeniously devised habitations of deathWhen Israel’s body drifted as smokeThrough the…
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Nelly Sachs
Places:
Stockholm, Sweden
Date:
1947