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The German holy community of Amsterdam was founded in the year 5396 [1635/6]. This I discovered in a few pages of a book written by Maharam Maarsen, one of the first German Jews in…
[To the tune of “Adir ayom ve-nora.”]Come, dear friends, let us cry and lamentThe horrible things that have happened in these times.In the year that Messiah was expected amid tribulation [1648],Cossa…
It was in the year 5457, which is the year 1109 in their calendar [1697 CE], in the month of Tevet, when the chill and the cold began and the water of the great river Ozo Sway [the Dnieper…
Time with his pointed shafts has hit my heart
and split my gut, laid open my entrails,
landed me a blow that will not heal,
knocked me down, left me in lasting pain.
Time wounded me…
You have a simplistic picture of a pogrom. A well-off and respected shopkeeper lives a proud and happy life. All at once, angels of destruction pop out of nowhere and within minutes they…
To the honored Professor Sen. C. F. Gabba,
The long article that you published in the Rassegna Nazionale on the first of last April requires my response: a response that is addressed not only to you…
In 1919, during a civil war raging in Ukraine, a wave of pogroms swept the area around Kiev. In one of them, Manievich’s son was killed, and this painting expresses his grief. The destroyed homes and…
[ . . . ] And we get out of their way; we move in the opposite direction, toward where they’ve come from, toward Petroshi.And you see, they do not forbid it. And it may be that in Petroshi, where they…
This book seeks to unfold before the reader the scroll of Jewish valor, in both Israel and the diaspora, from the destruction of the Hebrew state to the harbingers of the renaissance of the…
The Oppressor Chmiel, may his name be blotted out, heard that many Jews had gathered in the holy community of Nemirow, and that they had a great deal of…