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Mikve Israel-Emanuel is a synagogue that served the Spanish Portuguese Jewish community in Curaçao (and continues to function today as a Reconstructionist congregation). It is the oldest surviving…
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Willemstad, Dutch Colonial Empire (Willemstad, Curaçao)
Date:
1732
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This text of an excommunication, found in David Aboab’s manuscript of Sefer emet ve-yatsiv (True and Certain), which chronicles a conflict in the Sephardic congregation of Curaçao. The first Jews…
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David Aboab
Places:
Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)
Date:
1745