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Livro de ascamot (Book of Regulations): On a Banned Book
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In meetings of the community’s Mahamad [board of governors], past and present, discussions were held about a book that Gideon [Abudiente] ordered printed concerning the…

Contributor:

The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam

Places:

Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)

Date:

1666

Subjects:

Apocalypse, Leadership, Crime, Excommunication, Print

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Law
Selections from the Kurant
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Lisbon, July 26. Here three rich Portuguese were detained on suspicion of secretly having practiced their faith. And their lives would have been spared if, God forbid, they would have…

Contributor:

Moses Bar Abraham

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1686–1687

Subjects:

Antisemitism, War, Jewish identity, Cochini, Crime

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Journalism