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Dear readers! I am giving you a rare and precious treasure, which has hitherto been lying in a library for three hundred years. Jews have always been thinking and talking about this treasure…
Contributor:
Yudl Rosenberg
Places:
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1909
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The embroidered structure in the center of this silk Torah ark curtain is thought to be a loose representation of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, with its six minarets and entryway stairs. A somewhat…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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ca. 1735
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[Sabbatai’s] illumination grew steadily more intense up to the thirteenth day of the month of Adar [23 February]. On that day his brother came for a stay, along with four of Vani Effendi’s men.…
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Jacob Najara
Places:
Adrianople, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1671
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My brothers, my children, and my friends know this: I understood with great clarity that the True One, whom I alone have known for many generations and for whom I have strived so much, wants me to…
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Shabbetai Tzvi
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1666
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The city of Urfa, located between Palestine and Karaman, was the site of a very well-organized and previously planned massacre.
On the past August 18…
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Alexander Benghiat
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İzmir, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1918
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At the gate of the inner courtyard, where the eunuchs and all of the great men of the kingdom were standing before the king, they were standing there, and Amira was sitting, and the aforementioned…
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Unknown
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Adrianople, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1671
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But the moment he disembarked in Kostan, he was seized and thrown into the bottom of the prison in Yedikule. In this terrible prison, which people entered only to die, he was thinking of his great…
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Alexander Benghiat
Places:
İzmir, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1910/11
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Today in every district of Istanbul and neighboring areas we can see Muslim, community, and foreign schools that disseminate instruction and enlighten the people. [For my part] I work as a teacher at…
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Victoria Danon
Places:
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1895