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Instructions Regarding Children and Inquiry about Passover
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To Hoshaiah. Your welfare (may DN seek after at all times). Now, look after the children by yourself until Ahutab comes. Do not entrust them to others. If their bread is ground, knead for them 1 qab,…

Places:

Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)

Date:

ca. 475 BCE

Subjects:

Diaspora, Family, Food and drink, Children, Passover

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Letter to His Mother
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May the Lord who dwells in Zion protect you from any grief and sorrow. To my beloved mother, the crown of my head, the pious Mrs. Rachel, may she live long. [ . . . ] You should know, my dear mom…

Contributor:

Moses Sussman Zarit

Places:

Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)

Date:

ca. 1560

Subjects:

Family, Children, Parenthood, Plague, Education

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters