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Report on Shabbetai Tzvi’s Meeting with the Sultan
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At the gate of the inner courtyard, where the eunuchs and all of the great men of the kingdom were standing before the king, they were standing there, and Amira was sitting, and the aforementioned…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Adrianople, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Türkiye)

Date:

1671

Subjects:

Messianism, Conversion, Islam, Muslim-Jewish relations, Journalism, Prophets & prophecy

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage, Prophetic Literature
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