Kadavumbagam Synagogue (Cochin, India)

The origin of this Torah scroll is in Turkey. It was donated by the Camondo family, one of the most important Jewish families in Istanbul, many of whose members settled in Paris and greatly…

Five years after the death of his second wife Reb Meshulam Moskat married for a third time. His new wife was a woman in her fifties, from Galicia, in eastern Austria, the widow of a wealthy brewer…

In the name of God, in Pisa, the nineteenth of Shevat in the year 5373, February 2, 1613 Whereas the members of the mahamad [board of governors] and those accompanying them, including Ḥakham Azaria…