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Adolf van der Laan
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1710
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Pieter van den Berge
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1699
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1669
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Jan Luyken
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1683
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God, blessed be He, knew very well that the people of Israel would be scattered among the nations and that most of them would not be able to understand the holy tongue [Hebrew]. Therefore our sages…
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Ḥayim Druker
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1711
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The Gazeta de Amsterdam was printed by David de Castro Tartas, in that city, not regularly, from 1672 to 1702. This is considered the first Jewish newspaper, although it has no particular Jewish…
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David de Castro Tartas
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1675
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Jacob Folkema
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1709
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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
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1680
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During his life, Samuel Abbas amassed an impressive library that included 1,136 books in different languages—Latin (more than four hundred works), Hebrew, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, and…
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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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Willem Surenhuys
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1698