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Letter about the Travels of Abraham Rovigo
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Abraham Rovigo (1650–1713) was born in Modena and studied kabbalah under Moses Zacuto in Venice. Rovigo’s wealth enabled him to devote himself to study and to support pious endeavors. Swept up by…

Contributor:

Mordechai de Lattes

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1702

Subjects:

Israel/Israelis, Travel, Plague, Community, Israel-Diaspora relations

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Travel Writing, Letters
Letter from Acre to His Father: Second Part
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And praised be the Lord—the Sabbath came and rest came, on Friday night at five in the evening, the strong wind calmed a bit, and we sailed well on Friday, Saturday, Sunday; and on Monday, we saw…

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Abraham Ishmael Ḥay Sanguinetti

Places:

Acre, Ottoman Empire (Acre, Israel)

Date:

1741

Subjects:

Israel/Israelis, Travel, Plague, Israel-Diaspora relations, Mysticism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Travel Writing, Letters
Hear my cry, O Lord
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Hear my cry, O Lord,Treat Zion well, with favor, speedily.Have mercy, fight my battle for me,For they have turned Jerusalem into ruins.Long have I inhabited a foreign land,Afflicted with bloody…

Contributor:

Isaac Samuel Modeano

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

End of the 17th Century

Subjects:

Piety, Plague, Messianism, Zionism, Israel/Israelis

Categories:

Liturgical poetry, Poetry