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Print depicting crowded interior of room with tall ceiling, chandelier, and columns and second floor balcony along perimeter of room, a floorplan in the upper left corner and an exterior view in the upper right corner.

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The Esnoga (Portuguese Synagogue) in Amsterdam

Romeyn de Hooghe

1675

Tombstone with Latin inscription on top half and illustration below of axe chopping tree in half, surrounded by English words around perimeter of stone.

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Tombstone of Abraham Pereira d’Azevedo

1722

Gravestones in rows.

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Cemetery (Altona)

17th and 18th Centuries

Tombstone of three cherubs and central Portuguese inscription, with engraving of wilted flower, skull, hourglass, and sun, with top panel of engraving of man riding in a procession through street and Hebrew text across the middle.

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Tombstone of Mordecai Hezekiah Namias de Crasto (replica)

1716

Manuscript page of Roman text in numbered list.

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Livro de ascamot: A List of the Books in Yeshivat ‘Ets Ḥayim

The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam

1639

Manuscript page with Portuguese text.

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Book Acquisitions of the ‘Ets Haim Yeshiva for the Years 1718/9 and 1732/33

1718/19 and 1732/33

Printed page in Portuguese with two narrow columns on right of main text.

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Catalogo dos Libros que Semuel Ben Israel Soeiro Vende (Catalogue of Books for Sale by Samuel Ben Israel Soeiro)

Samuel ben Israel Soeiro | Menasseh Ben Israel

1652

Portrait with circular border of seated older woman wearing wimple and stern expression and holding book in right hand, with Portuguese and Hebrew text below and around portrait.

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Portrait of Simcha Vaz (1582–1643), painted by her son, Moses Belmonte

Moses Belmonte

1642

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Narraçāo da vinda dos Judeos espanhões a Amsterdam (Account of the Coming of the Spanish Jews to Amsterdam)

Uri ha-Levi

1711

Print of city street with horse-drawn carriages and building facade.

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Family Chronicle

Isaac de Pinto

1671

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Arbol de vidas, en el qual se contienen los dinim mas necessarios que deve observar todo Ysrael (Tree of Life, in Which Are Included Those Laws Most Necessary for All Israel to Observe)

Abraham Vaez

1692

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Acordos (Regulations): Against Libelous Verses

The Jewish Community of Curaçao

1740