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No matter what the body of the Nation, be it in the form of a kingdom or a republic, it comprises various classes of people; as for the nobles, who make the state blossom through commerce, increased…
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Isaac de Pinto
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1748
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The wealthy merchant and diplomat Jeronimo Nunes da Costa (Mozes Curiël) was born in Florence in 1620. In 1627, his family settled in Hamburg, where his father, a businessman, became an important…
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Romeyn de Hooghe
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1700
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We, Leopold, elected Roman Emperor by the grace of God, in the name [of the House of Hapsburg], the name of our heirs and our descendants, with this letter proclaim publicly that we have graciously…
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Anonymous
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
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1703
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Leonore (Rachel) de Alvaro da Costa (1669–1749), the second wife of Don Francisco Lopes Suasso, was descended from a wealthy Portuguese New Christian family who fled the Iberian Peninsula and settled…
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Artist Unknown
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The Hague, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(The Hague, Netherlands)
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1730s–1740s
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The Hebrew worker did not come here as a refugee seeking shelter wherever it could be found, looking for any available means of survival. He went up into the land as an emissary of the nation, and as…
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David Ben-Gurion
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1925
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Ruth Schloss
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1953
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Rudi Weissenstein
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1954
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Morris Lapidus
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Miami, United States of America
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1955
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Artist Unknown
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Selma, United States of America
Date:
1965
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Much has already been written about the Jewish colonies in the Crimea. Unfortunately, most of the information is buried under a mountain of statistics, historical data, and political…
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Leon Dennen
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1934