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“Meanwhile months and years disappeared. At twenty-eight I was still without a husband, still an eligible virgin . . . It was spring—free, warm. My heart ached so, I thought I’d go crazy . . . the…
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Yente Serdatsky
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1913
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Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who created His world for the purpose of mankind, and, from all the different sorts of men, chose for Himself a nation as a special treasure—namely…
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Joseph Karo
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1542
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“Well, as you know already, the story is about Esterka, the daughter of the Jew to whom this house belongs. She was ten years old when he came here, and tall of her age, with black hair and large blue…
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Karl Emil Franzos
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Stuttgart, Germany
Date:
1873
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This is a night of vigil for me,
in the shudder of my soul
I shall conceal
the secret of my youth.
I shall stand on guard:
No sleep nor slumber!
And in just one moment
the veil was taken away.
A…
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Bat-Hamah
Places:
Kyiv, USSR (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1954