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Without warning, on the 20th of April, 1749, at the end of the Passover Festival, Sunday, at about 17 hours [noon], I was kidnapped and taken away by force thanks to a false denunciation made against…

Contributor:

Anna del Monte

Places:

Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)

Date:

1749

Subjects:

Conversion, Violence, Christian-Jewish relations, Crime, Women

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

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Travel Writing, Reportage