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Diario di un viaggio in Terra Santa (Diary of a Journey to the Holy Land): On the Jews of London
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“There are two synagogues of the German Jews, and one of the Portuguese, twenty-four cubits broad and forty-two long. Each one has its own management; thus the income of one is not mixed with that of…

Contributor:

Moise Vita Cafsuto

Places:

London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)

Date:

ca. 1735

Subjects:

Travel, Economic life, Cities, Christian-Jewish relations, Conversion, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Travel Writing, Reportage
Jewish London
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A hundred thousand men, women, and children, some of them fugitives still suffering the punishment of Cain, others just sloughing the Ghetto skin, yet others in whose ears the “hep, hep” of the…

Contributor:

Simon Gelberg

Places:

London, United Kingdom

Date:

1901

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish identity, Nationalism, Diaspora, Jewish quarters, Journalism

Categories:

Reportage