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These richly decorated Torah finials (rimonim), cast in silver and partly gilt, and adorned with many bells and topped with crowns, were created in London. Of the few surviving seventeenth- and…
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William Spackman
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1719
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These hypocrites maliciously break all Ten Commandments. All they do is only for show. They pride themselves that they believe in the existence of God, may He be blessed, while in truth it is not so…
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Sebastian Münster, Meyer Schomberg
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1746
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Born in Aldgate, London, bare-knuckle pugilist Daniel Mendoza (1764–1836) was the first Jew in England to become heavyweight champion, a title that he defended twice before losing it to John Jackson…
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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ca. 1790
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“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…
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Moise Vita Cafsuto
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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ca. 1735
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This ketubah (marriage contract) from London was written for the marriage of Isaac di Matos-Lopes and Sarah di Matos-Lopes. It also has, as one of its signatories, prominent scholar David Nieto, first…
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David Nieto
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1724
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Dear Mo:
I se no way for you to keep Pesah at William Hanry thear fore you had batter come over hear the Sunday before than you neat not due any thing to your house to git the hamez out of your house…
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Aaron Hart
Places:
Trois-Rivières, Kingdom of Great Britain (Trois-Rivières, Canada)
Date:
1790
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“When the genie of liberty inspired me the noble project to carry to the English, our natural…
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Isaac Sasportas
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Kingston, Kingdom of Great Britain (Kingston, Jamaica)
Date:
1799
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David Tevele Schiff (d. 1791) was the rabbi of the Great Synagogue of London from 1765 until his death. At the time of his appointment, the rabbi of the Great Synagogue was also considered to be the…
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Martha Isaacs
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1765
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Joseph Avis, a Quaker carpenter, was commissioned to build the first synagogue in England following the readmission of Jews in 1656: the synagogue of London’s Spanish and Portuguese community, on…
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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1699–1701
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Tzvi Hirsch ben Jacob Ashkenazi (ca. 1660–1718) was a talmudist and community leader from Moravia. Also known as the Ḥakham Tzvi, a Sephardic scholarly title he is thought to have received from the…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1714