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Text of an Excommunication
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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…

Contributor:

David Aboab

Places:

Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)

Date:

1745

Subjects:

Excommunication, Sephardic, Colonialism, Holidays, Sukkot

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Print & book culture
Facing-page manuscript with Hebrew text.
Letter to the Community of ‘Akron (Kurdistan)
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Blessed are you to God . . . You the holy congregation of ‘Akron, may your Rock and Creator preserve you; inform us about your concerns and tell us about your happenings, for I and the Minister, the…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Akron, Ottoman Empire (Akre, Iraq)

Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Rebellion, Justice system, Excommunication, Gentiles, Community, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters