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I record how, in the year 1625, the Grand Duke came to Sienna, and Messer Abraham Pesaro and Messer Buonaventura Gallichi were appointed to collect the levy. From me, they demanded a pair of sheets, a…

Contributor:

Joseph of Siena

Places:

Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Siena, Italy)

Date:

1625–1633

Subjects:

Economic life, Antisemitism, Justice system, Finance, Punishment, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography, Memoirs & diaries
Diario di un viaggio in Terra Santa (Diary of a Journey to the Holy Land): On the Jews of London
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“There are two synagogues of the German Jews, and one of the Portuguese, twenty-four cubits broad and forty-two long. Each one has its own management; thus the income of one is not mixed with that of…

Contributor:

Moise Vita Cafsuto

Places:

London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)

Date:

ca. 1735

Subjects:

Travel, Economic life, Cities, Christian-Jewish relations, Conversion, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Travel Writing, Reportage