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The Current Expenses of Jerusalem
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The current expenses of the city of Jerusalem, may it be speedily rebuilt and reestablished in our days, are close to five thousand kuruş per annum. This is not the case for Safed and Hebron. In the…

Contributor:

Raphael Mordechai Malki

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

Late 17th Century

Subjects:

Jerusalem, Cities, Economic life, Israel-Diaspora relations, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

History, Firsthand Accounts
The Current Situation in Jerusalem
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At present there are approximately three hundred homeowners, and almost twelve hundred people, in Jerusalem, may it be rebuilt and reestablished. This about the situation you will find at any point in…

Contributor:

Raphael Mordechai Malki

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

Late 17th Century

Subjects:

Jerusalem, Cities, Economic life, Israel-Diaspora relations, Arab-Jewish relations

Categories:

History, Firsthand Accounts
Crónica de los reyes otomanos (Chronicle of the Ottoman Kings)
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The houses and rooms of the inhabitants of this most famous city are one or the other of two extremes: the good ones are sumptuous houses at the height of perfection and…

Contributor:

Moses Almosnino

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1567

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish quarters, Economic life, Women, Ethnography

Categories:

History
Discorso circa il stato de gl’Hebrei et in particolar dimoranti nell’inclita Città di Venetia (Discourse Concerning the Condition of the Jews, and in Particular Those Living in the Illustrious City of Venice): On Jewish Commerce
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The Hebrews have been taught and instructed more than any other nation in the school of hardship under the rigorous discipline of that necessity, because they are deprived of real estate, forbidden…

Contributor:

Simone Luzzatto

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1638

Subjects:

Cities, Economic life, Travel, Community, Antisemitism

Categories:

History, Political Culture, Reportage
The 1745 Expulsion of the Jews from Prague
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This illustration, from Jüdische neue Zeitung vom Marsch aus Wien und anderen Orten der jetzigen zwölff Jüdischen Stammen (Jewish Newspaper from the March to Vienna and Other Places of the Current…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Munich, Holy Roman Empire (Munich, Germany)

Date:

1745

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Christian-Jewish relations, Exile, Cities, Economic life

Categories:

History, Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print of long procession of people on foot and some horses with wagons walking out of a city across hills, with German text above.