Showing Results 1 - 8 of 8
Public Access
Text
The following incident occurred: On the holy Sabbath of ḥol ha-mo‘ed Passover in the year 5335 [1575], many virtuous individuals from the Lisbon congregation arose and came to an agreement among…
Contributor:
Nicolas de Nicolay, Isaac Adarbi
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
Mid–16th Century
Subjects:
Public Access
Text
Question: Since it is true from time immemorial and ancient years that we observe the customs of our ancestors, as is the practice of the Musta‘arabim [Arabic-speaking Jews] everywhere among the Jews…
Contributor:
Yom Tov Tzahalon
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
17th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Contributor:
Romeyn de Hooghe
Places:
Date:
1675
Restricted
Image
The Gerush (Hebrew for “expulsion”) synagogue in Bursa, Turkey, dates back to the early sixteenth century and is unique in its dual-ark design; one upper section is located in the women’s gallery…
Places:
Bursa, Ottoman Empire
(Bursa, Turkey)
Date:
Early 16th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
The Velika Avlija (Old Temple or Synagogue) is the oldest synagogue in Sarajevo. It served the city’s first Jewish community, Sephardim, who began arriving in Sarajevo in the mid-sixteenth century…
Places:
Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire
(Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Date:
1581
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
The Yeshivat Dijet Synagogue was located in the Hara Seghira (the “small ghetto”) neighborhood of Djerba, Tunisia. It was one of several synagogues in this area, which, along with Hara Kebira, were…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Djerba, Ottoman Empire
(Djerba, Tunisia)
Date:
End of the 17th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Built in the seventeenth century, the Scuola Greca is a synagogue located in the area of the ghetto in which Jews were confined in 1622, in a neighborhood still known as “Evraiki” (Jews). It is the…
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
Corfu, Ottoman Empire
(Corfu, Greece)
Date:
17th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Therefore, it is incumbent upon us to praise the One who created us in His honor, for the great goodness that He bestowed upon us. For from this day forward we will not fear the multitudes of people…
Contributor:
Moses Almosnino
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1588