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the voice of prayer and the voice of song given inthe house of the lord elohei yisraelthe holy congregations of the sepharadimmay the lord comfort usin this great city of amsterdamfrom the day they…
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David Franco Mendes
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1792
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I have always had the illusion that my face did not clearly betray the calumny of my Jewish heritage. I have always taken care to conceal carefully the bitter secret that my father was a rabbi and my…
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Asser Kleerekoper
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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1918
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Persecution because of a person’s religious observance is reprehensible, even despicable, though still somewhat understandable. What is understandable—I am not saying: justifiable—is that zealots who…
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Mozes Henriquez Pimentel
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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1891