The descendant of Portuguese Jews who emigrated from Holland to the Caribbean in the seventeenth century, Jacob Abraham Jesurun was a merchant in Curaçao, where his company owned several ships as well as a wharf, dockyard, and coal depot.
The Day after the Pogrom was painted shortly after the Kishinev pogrom, in which forty-nine Jews were murdered, more than 500 injured, many Jewish women raped, 700 houses ransacked and destroyed, 600…
City gate, Gezer, Early Iron Age (1200–980 BCE). This gatehouse complex had benches for participants in legal procedures and other public affairs. In the book of Ruth, Boaz goes to the city gate in…
In the month of Tishri, that is Epeiph, year four of Darius the king, then in Elephantine the fortress, Ananiah son of Haggai, an Aramean of Elephantine the fortress of the detachment of Iddinnabu…