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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, (Auto)biography

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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
Letter: On Conversion Problems in Hamadan
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Community. From the point of view of religious practices, the Jewish community of Hamadan is one of the least homogeneous of Persia. It is not unusual to find in the same family a mother who is a…

Contributor:

Albert Confino

Places:

Qajar, Iran (Qajar Āb-e Bālā, Iran)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Conversion, Interfaith relations, Islam, Muslim-Jewish relations, Christian-Jewish relations, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters