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Jezebel
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The days of my life pass by, dissolve like mist. I don’t know the what and when; I don’t know the who. Baal and Astarte have grown alien to me. My kingdom and my foes grow alien, too. I don’t…

Contributor:

Shulamit Kalugai

Places:

Mandate Palestine (Israel)

Date:

1941

Subjects:

Women, Death, Dreams, Monarchy, Theology

Categories:

Poetry, Literature, Religion & Theology
Tit ha-yaven (The Miry Clay)
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Now we shall begin to describe the confrontation of the King of Sweden with the King of Poland. First, the aforementioned King of Sweden came to the holy community of Posen [Poznań], a major Jewish…

Contributor:

Samuel Feibush

Places:

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poland)

Date:

1655

Subjects:

War, Monarchy, Death, Jewish quarters, Military

Categories:

History, Historical Writing
Kitāb-i Sar-guzasht-i Kāshān (The Book of Events in Kashan)
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Come, O heart, and proclaim a flood upon the world; no…

Contributor:

Bābāī ibn Farhād

Places:

Kashan, Afsharid Iran (Kashan, Iran)

Date:

Mid– to Late 18th Century

Subjects:

Monarchy, War, Hunger, Death, Muslim-Jewish relations

Categories:

History, Historical Writing
Extremos y grandezas de Constantinopla (Glories and Grandeur of Constantinople)
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In the days when…

Contributor:

Jacob Cansino

Places:

Madrid, Spanish Empire (Madrid, Spain)

Date:

1638

Subjects:

Death, Military, War, Monarchy, Muslim-Jewish relations

Categories:

History, Historical Writing
Koheleth’s Attempts to Find Meaning in Life
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I, Koheleth, was king in Jerusalem over Israel. I set my mind to study and to probe with wisdom all that happens under the sun.—An unhappy business, that, which God gave men to be…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE

Subjects:

Wisdom, Monarchy, Death, Economic life, Philosophy

Categories:

Literature, Wisdom Literature
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