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Artist Unknown
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Gördes, Ottoman Empire
(Gördes, Turkey)
Date:
Late 18th–Early 19th Century
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Daniel Henriques de Castro
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
ca. 1860
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Peter Harrison
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(Newport, United States of America)
Date:
1763
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This gravestone in the oldest Jewish cemetery in the Netherlands (est. 1614), that of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam, is inscribed in memory of Mordechai Franco Mendes (d…
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Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands)
Date:
1687 and 1696
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Rachel Soares Pereira, who died in 1721 at the age of twenty-four, was married to Isaac Pereira. Floral motifs decorate the top of her gravestone, while the bottom panel contains a relief of a hand…
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(Kingston, Jamaica)
Date:
1721
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On June 7, 1690, Samuel de Isaac Senior Teixeira married Rachel Senior de Mattos in Hamburg. Their beautiful ketubah (marriage contract) depicts the couple under the wedding canopy, accompanied by…
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Artist Unknown
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1690
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I will print this book in ink as a remembrance and a sign, a memorial for my dear children. For now I will reveal their strength with words, as a reminder for them and their children…
Contributor:
Judah Peretz
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1712
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“It is only because the Lord was with us,”
says the old Israel;
in You lies holiness,
Israel’s praises.
“It is only because the Lord was with us,”
You elevated us above other men,
You saved us from…
Contributor:
Abraham Toledo
Date:
1732
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In order to survive, a newspaper needs numerous subscribers, the help of the community, paid publications, the aid of the friends of education, the generosity of the nation, and the support of the…
Contributor:
Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1877
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We will briefly mention several of his more important military expeditions. In the year 1731, Mr. Boeyé, Officer of the Christian Citizens Militia, received an order from the Council to carry out a…
Contributor:
David de Isaac Cohen Nassy
Places:
Paramaribo, Dutch Colonial Empire
(Paramaribo, Suriname)
Date:
1788