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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…

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David Aboab

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Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)

Date:

1745

Subjects:

Excommunication, Sephardic, Colonialism, Holidays, Sukkot

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Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Print & Book Culture

Peraḥ Levanon (Flower of Lebanon)

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I will print this book in ink as a remembrance and a sign, a memorial for my dear children. For now I will reveal their strength with words, as a reminder for them and their children…

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Judah Peretz

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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1712

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Writing, Exile, Family, Travel, Sephardic

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Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography, Memoirs & Diaries, Sermons

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