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A King had many natural sons, whom he handed over to lords and princes, his vassals, to rear and feed, and he had another legitimate son whom he greatly loved, and brought him up with him in his…
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Josua da Silva
Places:
London, England (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1670–1679
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Every day, I ask all those that pass by the shepherd’s tents,
What is all this, why is all this?
Has my beloved had a change of heart, and abandoned his flock forever,
And rejected them, and…
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Judah Alkaletz
Places:
Algiers, Ottoman Empire (Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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Three donkeys from Beersheba, so they say,
Plodded slowly down the road to Dan one day.
One brown, one black, one white, they went their way.
The three passed by a minaret, and there
The black one…
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Saul Tschernikovsky
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1939
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I shall begin by praising the True One
who in six days created the whole entire world
and on the seventh day He ceased work and rested.
Give thanks unto the Lord for He is good, for His…
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Unknown
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1702
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Pave the way! Pave the way!More than twenty years have passed since the idea that we now call Zionism began to reawaken among the Jews, though its essence and intensity had never ceased among the…
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Ze’ev Yavetz
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1902
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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…
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Isaac Samuel Modeano
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 17th Century
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The wife of Potiphar would frequently speak to her husband in praise of Joseph’s chastity in order that he might conceive no suspicion of the…
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Louis Ginzberg
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1909