Text of an Excommunication
David Aboab
1745
Credits
Collection Ets Haim—Livraria Montezinos, Amsterdam, EH 47 C 44 005.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
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Creator Bio
David Aboab
18th Century
David Aboab was an Italian talmudist who came from Jamaica to Curaçao to serve as a teacher and rabbi. In 1746, after a clash with the ḥakhamim (rabbis) Raphael Jessurun and Samuel Mendes de Sola, he was excommunicated. Later, he left Curaçao and went to Amsterdam, taking a manuscript about the events in Curaçao, in which he blamed Sola for the conflict.
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