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I forget meticulously
I forget scrupulously
my native landscape
my daily landscape
I forget the ragged
I forget the billowy
clouds in a sky
clouds over a town
I forget to the end
I forget…
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Anna Frajlich
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1973
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When our teacher Rabbi Solomon, who was a rabbi here in Aleppo, passed away without any male children, the rabbis [of the city] consulted among themselves, and with the elders of the people and the…
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Raphael Laniado
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Aleppo, Ottoman Empire (Aleppo, Syria)
Date:
1787
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One of the most important things that the government has introduced in Russia to improve education among Jews is the decree that each community must choose a…
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Berish Rozenblum, Menashe Margolis
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1864
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Fishke started to narrate in his lisping, stammering way.
“You seem to know I married the blind orphan girl, and after the wedding we lived well, like a Jewish couple should. I think I kept my part of…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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Berdichev, Russian Empire (Berdychiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1869
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An Explanation of the Plot of this BookNaʿma is the daughter of a caïd of one of the regions in Iraq, and Nuʿman is her paternal first cousin, whom she married while her father was still alive. When…
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Abraham Daninos
Places:
Algiers, French Algeria (Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
1847
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I want to recount a beautiful tale. I ask that the men relax. Listen, and see how marvelous it is how merciful God restores justice for us.
Jacob:
He said to his son, I wanted to send you to find out…
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Moses Samuel Konfino
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Bucharest, Ottoman Empire (Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1862
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A Play by Molière in One Act of Sixteen Scenes[Carlo, Esterina]Carlo:Is there any news, Esterina? Do you have any advice for me?Esterina:Why do you want advice? I have a lot of news for you…
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Unknown
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1873
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Jacques Offenbach
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1880–1881
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Terah’s wife is pregnant
day after day she turned pale,
she already knew what she had
but she did not reveal it to her husband.
One day she went out to fields and vineyards,
she found a cavern and…
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Unknown
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Ottoman Empire (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
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ca. 1800
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
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Lyady, Russian Empire (Lyady, Belarus)
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ca. 1800