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Text of an Excommunication
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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…

Contributor:

David Aboab

Places:

Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)

Date:

1745

Subjects:

Excommunication, Sephardic, Colonialism, Holidays, Sukkot

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Print & book culture
Facing-page manuscript with Hebrew text.
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, Law

Categories:

Print & book culture, Law