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This gravestone in the oldest Jewish cemetery in the Netherlands (est. 1614), that of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam, is inscribed in memory of Mordechai Franco Mendes (d…
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Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands)
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1687 and 1696
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Statesman, merchant, and communal leader Baron Manuel (Isaac Nunes) de Belmonte was Spanish agent general in the Netherlands from 1664 and resident (consul) of the King of Spain from 1674. He…
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Romeyn de Hooghe
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1700
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Sad is the man who forgets God
without waking from the dream of his error,
and of the evil that awaits him is never aware
until his sin of his death is the cause.
In his obstinate and…
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Aron de Chavez, Daniel Levi de Barrios
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1665
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the voice of prayer and the voice of song given in
the house of the lord elohei yisrael
the holy congregations of the sepharadim
may the lord comfort us
in this great city of amsterdam
from the day…
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David Franco Mendes
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1792
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Rembrandt van Rijn
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1645–1647
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Bernard Picart
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1724
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Bernard Picart
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1725
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The illustrious gentlemen, ḥakham R. Mosseh Ury ha-Levi (of blessed memory) and his son, R. Aaron Ury ha-Levi, my father and master: both were residents of Emden, in the province of Oost-Friesland…
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Adolf van der Laan, Uri ha-Levi
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1711
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Jan Veenhuyzen
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1647
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Shalom Italia
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1654