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Mikve Israel-Emanuel is a synagogue that served the Spanish Portuguese Jewish community in Curaçao (and continues to function today as a Reconstructionist congregation). It is the oldest surviving…
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Willemstad, Dutch Colonial Empire (Willemstad, Curaçao)
Date:
1732
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This text of an excommunication, found in David Aboab’s manuscript of Sefer emet ve-yatsiv (True and Certain), chronicles a conflict in the Sephardic congregation of Curaçao. The first Jews arrived in…
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David Aboab
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Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)
Date:
1745
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Built in 1736, the Tzedek ve-Shalom synagogue served a Sephardic congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had migrated from Holland to Suriname. Located in Suriname’s capital of Paramaribo, the…
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Artist Unknown
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Paramaribo, Dutch Colonial Empire (Paramaribo, Suriname)
Date:
1736
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This alms container from Charleston, South Carolina, is made of cast and engraved silver. The cartouche on the front features two rampant lions flanking a menorah. The Hebrew inscriptions read:…
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Artist Unknown
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Charleston, United States of America
Date:
ca. 1819