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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

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Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Print & book culture
Facing-page manuscript with Hebrew text.
Issues of the Hour
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This period of time is marked by four phenomena. Three of them concern everyone, and one concerns religious youth specifically. 1. Despair…

Contributor:

Moshe Zvi Neriah

Places:

Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1939

Subjects:

Sukkot, Assimilation, Yishuv, Diaspora, Halakhah

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Firsthand accounts, Speeches
Letter
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And so let it be known to your Excellency what happened to the letter that your Excellency sent me with the etrogs [citrons]. The letter was not handed to me until the [week of the] Sabbath of Vayetze…

Contributor:

Asenath Barazani

Places:

Mosul, Ottoman Empire (Mosul, Iraq)

Date:

Early 17th Century

Subjects:

Holidays, Sukkot, Women, Polemics, Economic life

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
Ta‘ame sukkah (Discourse on Sukkot): Account of His Printing Problems
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And in it they will find a commentary appropriate to everyone and in it many precious midrashim, sharp pilpulim, light and weighty, Sinai and uprooter of mountains (Berakhot 64a, that is both breadth…

Contributor:

Nathan Hannover

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1652

Subjects:

Print, Holidays, Sukkot

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage