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Me‘on ha-sho’alim (Abode of the Supplicants)
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This is the title page of Me‘on ha-sho’alim (L’abitacolo degli oranti; Abode of the Supplicants), by the poet and translator Devorà Ascarelli, a member of the Catalan community in Rome. Me‘on ha-sho…

Contributor:

Devorà Ascarelli

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1601

Subjects:

Print, Women, Writing, Poetry, Translation

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Prayer & Liturgy, Liturgical Poetry
Printed page with Hebrew and Italian text.
Shāhzada va Ṣūfī (The Prince and the Sufi)
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In the Name of God, May We Endeavor and Succeed. I Behold God before my Eyes at All Times. A Dedication to My Master, My Father, May He Live Forever.

Contributor:

Elisha ben Samuel

Places:

Ottoman Empire (Iran)

Date:

1684

Subjects:

Translation, Jewish languages, Poetry, Poets, Wisdom

Categories:

Literature, Popular Poetry
Los CL Salmas de David (The 150 Psalms of David)
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I adapted the above psalm to my situation, for the blessed Lord freed me from the Inquisition—although broken, I was released and free—where I saw eleven seeming penitents burned to death for heresy…

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David Abenatar Melo

Places:

Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)

Date:

1626

Subjects:

Theology, Poetry, Translation, Bible, Language and linguistics

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries
From Homer's The Iliad
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[ . . . ] I have striven to transmit exactly the course of thought, the spirit, and the expressions of the [original] text; thus, you have before you not a “reworking” but a true translation.I have…

Contributor:

Max Weinreich

Places:

St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)

Date:

1915

Subjects:

Poetry, Translation, Jewish languages, Yiddish

Categories:

Literature, Poetry