Text of an Excommunication
David Aboab
1745
This text of an excommunication, found in David Aboab’s manuscript of Sefer emet ve-yatsiv (True and Certain), chronicles a conflict in the Sephardic congregation of Curaçao. The first Jews arrived in Curaçao as early as 1651, not long after the Dutch captured it from Spain. The community, founded under the name Mikve Israel, was the largest Jewish community in the Americas until 1825.
Credits
Collection Ets Haim—Livraria Montezinos, Amsterdam, EH 47 C 44 005.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
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