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Letter Addressed to the Conference of Constantinople in Favor of the Jews of the Orient
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Paris, December 1876 To Mr. President and Members of the Conference of Constantinople Sirs, You were nominated to discuss the interests of a great number of people in the Orient, and to accomplish a…

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Unknown

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1877

Subjects:

Scholarship, Diaspora, Ladino, Community, Sephardic

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Literature, Journalism, Firsthand Accounts
Sheyris Yisroel (Remnant of Israel)
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The German holy community of Amsterdam was founded in the year 5396 [1635/6]. This I discovered in a few pages of a book written by Maharam Maarsen, one of the first German Jews in Amsterdam…

Contributor:

Menaḥem Man Amelander

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1743

Subjects:

Community, Migration, Diaspora, Pogroms, Synagogue

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Firsthand Accounts
Iquitos: The Jewish Soul in the Amazon, Notes of a Voyager
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It is difficult in a short article to give the history of Jewish labor in the Peruvian Amazon. I can’t pretend to do justice to such an arduous task. The history of…

Contributor:

Yaacov Hasson

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Date:

1969

Subjects:

Israel/Israelis, Jewish identity, Sephardi, Migration, Diaspora

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, History, Historical Writing