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Isaack Luttichuys
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
Date Unknown|Second Half of the 17th Century
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[To the tune of “Adir ayom ve-nora.”]
Come, dear friends, let us cry and lament
The horrible things that have happened in these times.
In the year that Messiah was expected amid tribulation [1648],…
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Joseph Lipman Ashkenazi
Places:
Amsterdam, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Poland)
Date:
1648
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To the city of London, to the complete sage R. Solomon Ayalon, in the year 1697.
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Isaack Luttichuys, The Jewish Community of Prague, Jacob Sasportas
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1697
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Behold, we have before us the head of the rationalists [or “rational theologians”], Maimonides, may his memory be for a blessing. In chapter three of Hilkhot teshuvah [Mishneh Torah, Laws of…
Contributor:
Saul Levi Mortera
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1636
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Jacob Folkema
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1709
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Jacobus Houbraken
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1728
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Samuel Abbas
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1693
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I am astonished to see that for reading just the names of the holy books, one receives his reward, as if he had read and studied them all. If so, then one will not make much of an effort to study…
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Shabbetai Meshorer Bass
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1680
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In 1735, Eleazar ben Samuel arrived in Amsterdam to take up the post of chief rabbi of the Ashkenazic community. To mark the occasion, Joel ben Lippman Levi minted a medal. On the front of the medal…
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Joel ben Lippman Levi
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1735
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Aernout Naghtegaal
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1683