Diario di un viaggio in Terra Santa (Diary of a Journey to the Holy Land)
Moise Vita Cafsuto
ca. 1735
“There are two synagogues of the German Jews, and one of the Portuguese, twenty-four cubits broad and forty-two long. Each one has its own management; thus the income of one is not mixed with that of the other, and each maintains its own staff and its poor respectively. Together they are estimated as amounting to about six thousand souls. They…
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Translated by Anson F. Rainey from Shmuel Aḥituv’s Hebrew edition.