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Indeed, in the countries where we reside, where the gentile women walk about bareheaded, but our mothers did not go out like that and were most careful on that score, concerned as they were about…
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Moses Sofer
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Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
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1839
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The train was beginning to slow down again, and Abraham noticed lights in the distance. He shifted his body only slightly so as not to disturb the boy, and sank back into the familiar pattern of…
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Adele Wiseman
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1956
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Noted for Service, the Jewish woman, especially in America, faces her greatest opportunities.
It has always been the same story for her. Her home has been the circle from which she has radiated…
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Belle Moskowitz
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1917
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When history recounts the life and fortune of the peoples who lived in various epochs, when it lets us believe in the marvelous strides that they had made, whether in the field of war, or for…
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Klara
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Plovdiv, Ottoman Empire (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
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1903
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It happened in the days of Ahasuerus—that Ahasuerus who reigned over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia. In those days, when King Ahasuerus occupied the royal…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE
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The word which came to Jeremiah for all the Judeans living in the land of Egypt, living in Migdol, Tah-panhes, and Noph, and in the land of Pathros:
Thus said the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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Old Levi turned his face away that was so easily stained by tears. Again, he felt a twinge of longing for his terrestrial home. How strange it was, this longing for a miserable land where one had…
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Anna Seghers
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Mexico City, Mexico
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1944
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If we sang praises to the Lord
Every day with as much care
As He takes in giving us joy
And in showing His favor in every part of our lives,
Then our suffering would not be relentless
And no great…
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Leonor de Carvajal
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Spanish Empire (Mexico City, Mexico)
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End of the 16th Century