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Topographic Map of the city of Caracas
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Ángel Jacob Jesurún’s topographical map of Caracas, with its geometric grid, is the first map after Venezuela’s independence to be drawn and printed by a native of the city. After decades of war and…

Contributor:

Ángel Jacob Jesurún

Places:

Caracas, Venezuela

Date:

1843

Subjects:

Cities, Colonialism, Nationalism, Christian-Jewish relations, Sephardic

Categories:

Print & book culture, Architecture
Topographic map, with place names in columns on left and right side and Spanish text below.
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.