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Question 1: May our teacher and master, the great rabbi, who sits on the throne of halakhic rulings, please instruct and enlighten us regarding an episode that unfolded here in our city of Pisa, may…
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Simeon ben Naphtali, Jacob Senior
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Pisa, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Pisa, Italy)
Date:
Mid– to Late 17th Century
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Shalom Italia
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1648
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Adorned with a lush vegetative frame and putti (cherubs) carrying banners, this ketubah (marriage contract) marks the wedding of David and Dona Rachel Curiel, prominent members of Amsterdam’s…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1617
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Jacob Teixeira was born in Amsterdam in 1724 to Judith Nunes Henriques (b. Amsterdam, 1703–1732) and Joseph Teixeira (b. London, 1699–1775), who descended from the wealthy Portuguese Teixeira family…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1748
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The rich and honorable Moshe haCohen, resident of the city Castoria may God protect it, says as follows: he has been given a bad wife, and that during their marital life…
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Johannes Alexander Böner, Aaron ha-Kohen Peraḥia
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1701