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The Ass’s Complaint
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Why is my back loaded with fine flour, while in my mouth there is no bread at all, but only straw? I drink well-water, though I carry wine. And the stick goes on fracturing my skull! I live in rubble…

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Samuel Archevolti

Places:

Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)

Date:

End of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Animals, Food and drink, Violence, Ethics, Allegory

Categories:

Literature, Poetry, Popular Poetry
Responsum: On a Wayward Wife
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Question 1: May our teacher and master, the great rabbi, who sits on the throne of halakhic rulings, please instruct and enlighten us regarding an episode that unfolded here in our city of Pisa, may…

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Jacob Senior

Places:

Pisa, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Pisa, Italy)

Date:

Mid– to Late 17th Century

Subjects:

Conversion, Women, Violence, Life cycle, Marriage

Categories:

Law, Responsa
Tsemaḥ David (The Sprout of David)
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Thus spoke David, son of Isaac, son of Eliezer, son of Isaac, son of Abraham, son of Menahem, son of Isaac, son of Obadiah, son of Isaac—known as “the wealthy one”—son of Elijah, known as “the holy…

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David de Pomis

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1587

Subjects:

Violence, Education, Philosophy, Antisemitism, Marriage

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography, History, Historical Writing
I’m in a rage, so angry that I don’t know what to do
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I’m in a rage, so angry that I don’t know what to do because of what just happened when I went out with a few good friends to take a walk in town, this lovely Sabbath day. We joined a crowd of rowdy…

Contributor:

Leone Modena

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Holidays, Sabbath, Antisemitism, Violence, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Literature, Popular Poetry, Poetry
Divre ha-yamim le-malkhe Tsarefat u-vet Otoman ha-Togar (Chronicle of the Kings of France and the Ottoman Empire)
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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…

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Joseph ha-Kohen

Places:

Sabbioneta, Venice (Sabbioneta, Italy)

Date:

1554

Subjects:

Travel, Slavery, Colonialism, Violence

Categories:

History, Historical Writing