Showing Results 571 - 580 of 5408
Restricted
Image
Contributor:
Nir Hod
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2005
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The slaughter that occurred there, in Lisbon:
I was out of the city, and when I returned after several days they told me that the two [events, namely, the massacre within Lisbon and in the surrounding…
Contributor:
Solomon Ibn Verga
Places:
Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1520
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
There was a man in Castile called Americo. He had a large ship, in which he placed a great number of supplies, as much as his soul desired, and he also resolved in his heart to amass as much booty as…
Contributor:
Joseph ha-Kohen
Date:
1554
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Granada was under control of the Ishmaelites for seven hundred years, until Ferdinand and Isabel, the monarchs of Spain, besieged it, for many days, and captured the whole region of that kingdom in…
Contributor:
Joseph ha-Kohen
Date:
ca. 1575
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
And after the rabbi [Joseph Karo] went to Safed he studied in the study house of the rabbi, our master, Jacob Berab, and became a disciple of our master R. Berab, as is written in several places. The…
Contributor:
David Conforte
Places:
Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1678
Categories:
Public Access
Text
May this be written for a coming generation, that people yet to be created will praise Jah. For the signs and wonders that the most high God has performed for us, I am pleased to relate:
Know that in…
Contributor:
Elijah Capsali
Date:
1538
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The author had a tradition from his ancestors, also based on a book of his genealogy that was lost in all the upheavals of the expulsion and the persecutions, that this holy and lofty family, whose…
Contributor:
Barukh Uziel Hazaketto
Places:
Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1550
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Sensitive Content
In the year 5289 (1528/29), the holy martyrs of Pösing, 36 souls—men and women, youths and young girls—were arrested because of a false accusation made by a mamzer, and they died for the…
Contributor:
Josel of Rosheim
Places:
Holy Roman Empire (Alsace, France)
Date:
1551/2