Ketubah (Amsterdam)

This medal was issued in the Netherlands to commemorate the repeal of the 1745 expulsion of the Jewish community of Prague. Responding to appeals from foreign leaders, Maria Theresa (1717–1780), the…

Day unto day bequeaths its fading sun, and night after night laments for night. Summer after summer is gathered in fall and the world in its sorrow gives song. Tomorrow we’ll die, the word in us…

Joseph Avis, a Quaker carpenter, was commissioned to build the first synagogue in England following the readmission of Jews in 1656: the synagogue of London’s Spanish and Portuguese community, on…