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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…

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David Aboab

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Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)

Date:

1745

Subjects:

Excommunication, Sephardic, Colonialism, Holidays, Sukkot

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Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Print & Book Culture

Title Page of the Register of a Jewish Midwife

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This detailed bilingual Hebrew-Yiddish register kept by Roza, a Jewish midwife in the Jewish community of the Dutch city of Groningen in the years from 1794 to 1832, provides basic information about…

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Roza

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Groningen, Dutch Republic (Groningen, Netherlands)

Date:

1794

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Life cycle, Birth, Women, Profession, Health

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Firsthand Accounts

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