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Considering the great harm and dangers that have befallen the religious communities of Israel on account of overdressing both by women and by young men, we, the undersigned honorable parnasim…
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The Portuguese Jewish Community of Tunis
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Tunis, Ottoman Empire
(Tunis, Tunisia)
Date:
1726
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Anonymous
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
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1648
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Leonore (Rachel) de Alvaro da Costa (1669–1749), the second wife of Don Francisco Lopes Suasso, was descended from a wealthy Portuguese New Christian family who fled the Iberian Peninsula and settled…
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Artist Unknown
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The Hague, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(The Hague, Netherlands)
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1730s–1740s
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Many good, blessed and pleasant years, may they surely come to you and to your head and hairs! To the hands of my lovely, dear, beloved husband, the pious and prudent, worthy R. Loeb, may his Rock and…
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Rachel Olivetti of Pesaro, Paul Christian Kirchner, Sarel bat Moses
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1619
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Annie Leibovitz
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New York, United States of America
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1999
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Moses Belmonte
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1642
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Question: A rabbi died, leaving all his assets in the rabbinic court’s control until his heir came to take possession, and his closest heir, who ought rightfully to inherit, is in Portugal, living as…
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Samuel de Medina
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
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Mid–16th Century
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Eliah Forli
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
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1614, 1623
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This is a prayer book for women in Ladino for the whole year, with its order of blessings at the end. And the order for washing the hands and many other laws applicable to all of the most common…
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Meir Benveniste
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
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ca. 1565
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These are the “prayers” that Brites Henriques recited and the notary transcribed.
Every Morning [Prayers]
Praised be the Lord
Who is so enlightened,
May you, My Lord, be served
By making me…
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Brites Henriques
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Lisbon, Portuguese Empire
(Lisbon, Portugal)
Date:
1674