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This text of an excommunication, found in David Aboab’s manuscript of Sefer emet ve-yatsiv (True and Certain), which chronicles a conflict in the Sephardic congregation of Curaçao. The first Jews…
Contributor:
David Aboab
Places:
Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)
Date:
1745
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And so let it be known to your Excellency what happened to the letter that your Excellency sent me with the etrogs [citrons]. The letter was not handed to me until the [week of the] Sabbath of Vayetze…
Contributor:
Asenath Barazani
Places:
Mosul, Ottoman Empire (Mosul, Iraq)
Date:
Early 17th Century