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Lisbon, July 26. Here three rich Portuguese were detained on suspicion of secretly having practiced their faith. And their lives would have been spared if, God forbid, they would have…
Contributor:
Moses Bar Abraham
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1686–1687
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In 1670, Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jewish community commissioned a new synagogue, which, when finished, was the largest in the world. The master mason Elias Bouman, a non-Jew who had helped design the…
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Adolf van der Laan
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1710