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Scenes from everyday life are scarcely to be found in these pages. Rather you will feel that you have been transported for a while to some far-off, exotic country where different flowers grow and…
Contributor:
Jirí Langer
Places:
Prague, Czechoslovakia (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1937
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Saturday is the worst of the week. Whenever I touch anything on this day, straightway there comes a voice: Don’t do that, today it’s a sin.
“Sin?” I ask.
Says Mother: “Sin is that for which the Good…
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Károly Pap
Places:
Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1937
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It is often said that among the Gentiles there are men of noble lineage whose features and outward appearance show that nothing but the purest and most refined aristocratic blood…
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Yehudah Burla
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1933
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Avot 5:6: Ten things were created on the eve of the Sabbath at twilight: The mouth of the earth, the mouth of the well, the mouth of [Balaam’s] ass, the rainbow, the manna, the rod, the shamir-worm…
Contributor:
Judah Loew
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1589
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- Jews hold the Sabbath, above all other feasts, with the greatest veneration on account of it being named so often in the Scripture and being ordered…
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Leone Modena
Places:
Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1637