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From here to the shrine of Nabi Moussa was some twenty-five miles. Allah, wanting to placate his favorite, and mitigate the punishment which He had imposed on him in His anger, had…
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Yitshak Shami
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Hebron, Mandate Palestine (Hebron, West Bank)
Date:
1928
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We return now to the narrative of our Lord’s doings.
After he had put the pure turban on his head, he made love to his Ashkenazi wife. She conceived; she bore him a son. On…
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Barukh of Arezzo
Places:
Portland, United States of America
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ca. 1677
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Ze’ev Raban
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1914
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Dear readers! I am giving you a rare and precious treasure, which has hitherto been lying in a library for three hundred years. Jews have always been thinking and talking about this treasure…
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Yudl Rosenberg
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1909
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Fernand Bidon
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Marrakesh, Morocco
Date:
1950
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At the gate of the inner courtyard, where the eunuchs and all of the great men of the kingdom were standing before the king, they were standing there, and Amira was sitting, and the aforementioned…
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Unknown
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Adrianople, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1671
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Some time later, two or three months had passed, David sends for me again.
Bathsheba is there, her hair beautifully arranged, very pretty and self-confident. Already the mistress of this palace.
David…
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Grete Weil
Places:
Munich, Germany
Date:
1988
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In the women’s prison where the Guards had taken Peacock, six people slept in a cell designed for one. They sat on the floor, occupying every rat-infested inch, blindfolded and handcuffed for weeks in…
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Gina Barkhordar Nahai
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Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1991
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But the moment he disembarked in Kostan, he was seized and thrown into the bottom of the prison in Yedikule. In this terrible prison, which people entered only to die, he was thinking of his great…
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Alexander Benghiat
Places:
İzmir, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1910/11
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Today in every district of Istanbul and neighboring areas we can see Muslim, community, and foreign schools that disseminate instruction and enlighten the people. [For my part] I work as a teacher at…
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Victoria Danon
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1895