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The Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue, Entrance
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Mikve Israel-Emanuel is a synagogue that served the Spanish Portuguese Jewish community in Curaçao (and continues to function today as a Reconstructionist congregation). It is the oldest surviving…

Places:

Willemstad, Dutch Colonial Empire (Willemstad, Curaçao)

Date:

1732

Subjects:

Synagogue, Colonialism, Community, Diaspora, Sephardic

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Photograph of arched entrance to building with Hebrew over lintel.
Topographic Map of the city of Caracas
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Ángel Jacob Jesurún’s topographical map of Caracas, with its geometric grid, is the first map after Venezuela’s independence to be drawn and printed by a native of the city. After decades of war and…

Contributor:

Ángel Jacob Jesurún

Places:

Caracas, Venezuela

Date:

1843

Subjects:

Cities, Colonialism, Nationalism, Christian-Jewish relations, Sephardic

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Architecture
Topographic map, with place names in columns on left and right side and Spanish text below.