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In early winter 1998, I set out to discover my country, the Holy Land. My pilgrimage was an attempt at religious empathy: I was hoping to encounter, as an Israeli Jew, my Christian and Muslim…
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Yossi Klein Halevi
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
2001
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Sarah and Miriam Yellin
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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ca. 1890
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In the year 5121 (1361 CE), Sultan Murad I conquered the great city of Adrianople—called Edirne by the Turks and Endirne by the Jews…
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Salomon Rosanes
Places:
Sofia, Ottoman Empire (Sofia, Bulgaria)
Date:
1914
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[By “war”] I mean concrete war—rather than a war of words or an incomplete war of demonstrations. I am not in denial regarding the existence of these words or those demonstrations, and neither do I…
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Murād Faraj
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1912
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It cannot be doubted that the two designations ahl al-ḥadīth and ahl al-ra’y originally referred to branches of legists occupied with the investigation of Islamic law: the former were…
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David Tevele
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Buda, Pest, Óbuda, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1883
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I did not sleep; I let myself be rocked by the inexorable battle of the waves; soon the monster of seasickness flashed in my innards, but I overcame it. A god held sway in me; he triumphed: it was the…
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Ignác Goldziher
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Buda, Pest, Óbuda, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
Date:
1873
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In the year 5464 from the creation of the world. If I were to try to tell the travails and bitter tidings and troubles that we the community of Fez (may God guard it!) endured, time would run out and…
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Samuel Ibn Danan
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1724
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Artist Unknown
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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ca. 1735
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To our fruit of holiness enwrapped in praise, our man of deeds rich in accomplishment, the exalted prince and honored rabbi. May your light shine like the rising sun, blossom like the flowers! May an…
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Nathan of Gaza
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Gaza, Ottoman Empire (Gaza, Palestine)
Date:
1666
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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