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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…
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Moses Wasserzug
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Płock, Kingdom of Prussia (Płock, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1820
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As for myself, I was constantly going back in my studies as well as in manners and conduct. After a while, my father decided to send me to Prague, which was a day’s journey. My older brother was also…
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Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1685
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Remember me, O my God, for the good (Nehemiah 5:19). Amen
I began to write the first Torah Scroll, with the help of God, today, 2 Heshvan, the twenty-second of October, in the year 5302 [1541]. It…
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Meir ben Ephraim of Padua
Places:
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1541–1580