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Notes to The Wise Man of Astrakhan: 1. Astrakhan was part of the initial Pale of Settlement in 1791, which, as has been mentioned... -
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THE WISE MAN OF ASTRAKHAN APRIL-MAY 1840 Nahum Groysman, as fitting for a man with that name, was big. In fact he was almost a...
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Chapter Forty-Five Yaroslavl, Russia Union of Soviet Socialist Republics May 1932 The morning sun turned the snow littered land red. To...
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The absolute last thing the Sanhedrin will want to do is open up a can of worms about whether the Transjordan Bedouin tribes are...
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Notes on The Consul 1. While New York City (which at the time was limited to the island of Manhattan) didn’t actually double in...
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Notes to Those Who Hunger: 1. I’m grateful to @Meshakhad for sending me a copy of Anatoly Khazanov’s 1989 research paper on the...
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THOSE WHO HUNGER MARCH 1840 “There are too many Jews here,” said Pesakh Kaia, taking a deep pull on his pipe. “It is true,” said Chaim...
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Notes on The Debtera: 1. I wasn’t planning to include the Beta Israel in the 1840 arc, much less 6000 words about them, and there still...
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THE DEBTERA 1839 Ageze Molla was in the Gondar market when he met the Egyptian trader. He’d gone to the city to buy ingredients for...
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THE SARRAF BASHI AUGUST 1815 The Shorja Market was burning. From Sassoon ben Salih’s house on Shari al-Hennouni, he could see the...
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RESTORATION BLUES JULY 1814 “Are you certain,” said Rabbi Abraham Vita de Cologna to Carel Asser, “that I can’t persuade you to stay...
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JohnOfNottingham replied to the thread What if Jerusalem had assented to the 1538 Sanhedrin..Have you got any more reading material about the inter-Hasidic and Hasidic-Mitnagdim struggles? Bar that source you linked, most of what...
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Not only of the genizah, but of all the tumultuous events of the Napoleonic period - the intent of the 1813 update was, in part, to show...
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AND THE SOLDIERS CAME HOME JUNE-AUGUST 1813 The soldiers had come home to Tzfat, and so they were there to see the inauguration of the...
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Thanks! Yes, as @jacob ningen has pointed out, raids and fights between rival Hasidic sects, and between Hasidim and mitnagdim...