Showing Results 691 - 700 of 5405
Restricted
Text
Depending on the wind, the burning time on the frame can be two to ten hours. Some Jews tend the crackling pyre with iron forks. Others, including Jastrow and Mutterperl, are down in the long narrow…
Contributor:
Herman Wouk
Places:
Washington, United States of America
Date:
1978
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Café Sport is another scene. A scene, because that is where the artists and intellectuals go to be seen. Taking part is what matters, not winning. It is like sport, which is where the café got its…
Contributor:
Elfriede Jelinek
Places:
Vienna, Austria
Date:
1980
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Psychoanalysis, dialectic materialism, nothing; laws of supply and demand, nothing, nothing; fiction, nothing. Nothing seemed applicable…
Contributor:
Moacyr Scliar
Places:
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Date:
1980
Subjects:
Public Access
Text
At first Berka had avoided Hershl, but the latter persisted in his visits to Berka’s workshop, ignoring his deliberate rudeness. While Hershl spoke to him Berka hammered away at his last in silence…
Contributor:
Rose Zwi
Places:
Johannesburg, South Africa
Date:
1980
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Adèle sometimes used to take me to church in Montrouge, where I made the same gestures as she did…gestures which didn’t seem to me to be very different from those required by pure politeness…the hand…
Contributor:
Nathalie Sarraute
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1983
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
First after Natan is Nehemyahu;
the commander of the tribal unit is Gedalyahu;
second after Nehemyahu is El[natan];
second to Tahtonah is Mlsh . . . ;
third after . . . is . . . ;
third…
Places:
H̱orbat ‘Uzza, Land of Israel (H̱orbat ‘Uzza, Israel)
Date:
7th Century BCE
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
…
Contributor:
Benedict de Castro
Places:
Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1631
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Image
When bloodletting is done at the right time, and when there is need for it, it promotes the health of the person, as I shall write about, God willing. When bloodletting is…
Contributor:
Issachar Baer Teller
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1655
Categories:
Restricted
Text
To the Most Serene Prince and to the Most Honorable and Wise Senators of the Venetian Republic Free Wisdom befits a Free Republic, most Serene Prince, most honorable Senators, whom Freedom of their…
Contributor:
Isaac Cardoso
Places:
Verona, Venice (Verona, Italy)
Date:
1673
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
On the 3rd of Phamenoth, year 5. This is (= these are) the names of the Jewish garrison who gave silver to YHW the God, each person silver, [2] shekels—
Meshull[em]eth daughter of Gemar[ia]h son of…
Places:
Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
Date:
400 BCE