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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1729
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The Pinkas Synagogue is the second-oldest extant synagogue in Prague. It is believed that a synagogue was found in that location as early as 1492. The structure now housing the synagogue was built by…
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1625
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Now we shall begin to describe the confrontation of the King of Sweden with the King of Poland. First, the aforementioned King of Sweden came to the holy community of Posen [Poznań], a major Jewish…
Contributor:
Samuel Feibush
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Venice, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Poland)
Date:
1655
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There is no room for Ghetto Judaism in America. Look at any of the creeds and churches in our free land! They are all more tolerant, more liberal, more humane and sympathetic in their mutual relations…
Contributor:
Kaufmann Kohler
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New York, United States of America
Cincinnati, United States
Date:
1911
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Established in 1616 as part of a yeshiva in Amsterdam, the Ets Ḥayim library continues to function to this day, making it the oldest operational Jewish library in the world. It moved to its current…
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1718/19 and 1732/33
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With God’s Help.
From one generation to the next, our ancestors have removed obstacles from the path of the people so that they not unwittingly stumble into sin [Isa 57:14], particularly [with respect…
Contributor:
Isaiah Bassan
Places:
Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
1720
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Bedrich Fritta
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1943–1944
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Hendrik Doncker
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1688
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Not here in our London Ghetto the gates and gaberdines of the olden Ghetto of the Eternal City; yet no lack of signs external by which one may know it, and those who dwell therein. Its narrow…
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Israel Zangwill
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(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1892