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Takkanot (Regulations)
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These ordinances have been decreed by us on Thursday, the twenty-first of Tammuz, corresponding to the twenty-first of June, of the year 5314 (1554) here at Ferrara.
    Printers shall not be permitted to…

Contributor:

The Synod of the Italian Jewish Communities

Places:

Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)

Date:

1554

Subjects:

Government, Leadership, Communal organizations, Justice system, Print

Categories:

Law, Legal Codes, Responsa
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