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Memoirs
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For the two reasons specified below, I have given myself the surname “Wasserzug”; the first reason is that when I was five or six years of age, I was playing with some young children, I believe, in a…

Contributor:

Moses Wasserzug

Places:

Płock, Kingdom of Prussia (Płock, Poland)

Date:

ca. 1820

Subjects:

Adolescence, Family, Education, Charity, Economic life

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography, Memoirs & Diaries
Kore’ ha-dorot (Reader for the Generations)
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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

Subjects:

Rabbis, Yeshiva, Education, Charity, Kabbalah

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Firsthand Accounts