Showing Results 1 - 2 of 2
Text of an Excommunication
Public Access
Image
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…

Contributor:

David Aboab

Places:

Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)

Date:

1745

Subjects:

Excommunication, Sephardic, Colonialism, Holidays, Sukkot

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Print & Book Culture
Facing-page manuscript with Hebrew text.
A Soldier’s Diary Entries
Public Access
Text
18 April 7 pm. News. Amzanak told us that the CO [commanding officer] had asked him how many men we had, what they were doing, and whether many could work with wagons, and Amzanak said that we had…

Contributor:

Joseph Trumpeldor

Places:

Alexandria, Egypt

Date:

1916

Subjects:

Military, Israel/Israelis, Holidays, Passover, Arab-Jewish relations

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries