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The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1639
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Samuel Abbas
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1693
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The library should be set up in the center of the district it serves, preferably on a quiet street where there is less noise and dust. Dry premises must…
Contributor:
OPE (Society for Promotion of Culture Among Jews in Russia)
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1914
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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…
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1718/19 and 1732/33
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Contributor:
Nathan Levy
Places:
Philadelphia, British America and the British West Indies
(Philadelphia, United States of America)
(United)
Date:
1753
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These three pages come from a catalogue of books listed for sale by Samuel ben Israel Soeiro, a bookseller in Amsterdam. It lists first the Hebrew books and then the ones in Spanish. He printed the…
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Samuel ben Israel Soeiro, Menasseh Ben Israel
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1652