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[47] Now all that remains is to reply to certain arguments by which they want to persuade themselves that the choice of the Hebrews was not for a time, and in relation only to their state, but eternal…
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Baruch Spinoza
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1670
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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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I saw your figure in my dream, gazelle, flashing like lightning. It gave light to my darkened eyes, and I saw that your face was a model of the heavens. The sun and moon are set in it, the stars and…
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David Onkinerah
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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16th Century
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Belonging to Eliyahu
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Late 8th Century BCE
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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
Places:
Oldendorf, Holy Roman Empire (Oldendorf, Germany)
Date:
1517
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Do you know what was being discussed today on the radio talk show where everyone can call in and take part in the conversation? We, all of us, are crazy, a certain professor, a psychiatrist, said. So…
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Eva Deutsch, Brigitte Schwaiger
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Vienna, Austria
Date:
1984
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Most witnesses told their stories voluntarily. These stories were equivalent to their souls yet they were willing to donate them to the Library of Moloch because they believed that to tell was to…
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Melvin Jules Bukiet
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1986
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Weary from the journey, confused by what she was seeing, shaken by the vicissitudes of the day, and straining to repress her rage, which was getting away from her in spite of herself—and always…
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Savyon Liebrecht
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1986
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Belonging to Hannah (?) daughter of Azaryah.
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Late 8th or Late 7th–Early 6th Century BCE
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But all this came to an end one night. In almost every one of his novels, Warszawski retells the scene in the winter of 1944 when he came home at three o’clock in the morning, after a night of dancing…
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Maxim Biller
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1990