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Established in 1616 as part of a yeshiva in Amsterdam, the Ets Ḥayim library continues to function to this day, making it the oldest operational Jewish library in the world. It moved to its current…
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1718/19 and 1732/33
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Judah Monis
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Cambridge, British America and the British West Indies (Cambridge, United States of America)
Date:
1735
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Born in Livorno, Tuscany, in 1656, Hezekiah ben David de Silva was a scholar best known for his halakhic work Peri ḥadash (New Fruit). De Silva studied in Syria and later headed a yeshiva in Jerusalem…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1690
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Moise Gadol
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1916
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Ioannes Aloysius Foppa de Rota
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
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1692