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We had spent the summer at Enghien, in the pleasant Montmorency valley, where every year spring brings along with its fragrant greenery, the choicest Parisian society. Situated on the shore…
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Eugénie Foa
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1833
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Sixty years ago, Jacob, who was known in his quarter as Old Jacob, was living in the rue de la Mortellerie. He ran a successful business selling old clothes, scrap metal and even, on occasion, old…
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Godchaux Baruch Weil (Ben-Lévi)
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1841
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Brazilian, I’m rich, I’ve got dough
There’s plenty of gold in my sack
Paree, here I am, I’ve come back
And richer than ever before!
Two times was I here in the past
My suitcases bulging with gold
A…
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Jacques Offenbach
Places:
Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1866
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Eugène Roger
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1646
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Iehudah Machabeu
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La Rochelle, Kingdom of France
(La Rochelle, France)
Date:
1655
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Isaac de Acosta
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Bayonne, Kingdom of France
(Bayonne, France)
Date:
1709
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Meanwhile the queen, wracked by internal anguish,
invites the king and Haman to her banquet
and in joyous hope awaits the sacred stream
of divine mercy form the holy fount-head;
her humble soul bowed…
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João Pinto Delgado
Places:
Rouen, Kingdom of France
(Rouen, France)
Date:
17th Century
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The plot of La Juive (The Jewish Woman), an opera in five acts, centered around a romance between a Jewish woman and a Christian man. It was one of the most popular operas of the nineteenth century.
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Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy
Places:
Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1835
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Artist Unknown
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17th Century
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“Blessed be He who shows loving kindness to the undeserving, for he requited me with every kindness” in the dead of night, on Monday, in the early morning of the 9th of Kislew…
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Asher Halevi of Reichshofen
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Alsace, Kingdom of France
(Alsace, France)
Date:
1625–1629