This Jewish woman of the Ottoman Empire wears a blue jacket worn over a black dress, with red shoes and a tall hat draped in a veil (“Dona Ebrea in casa”).
The inventory of the goods belonging to Philadelphia Jewish merchant Nathan Levy includes religious books in Judeo-Spanish, as well as numerous secular classical books and musical instruments
Regarding those who fight one another inside the synagogue over the seats which each one has designated for himself, as when one is late in arriving and finds that another person is sitting in his…