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During his life, Samuel Abbas amassed an impressive library that included 1,136 books in different languages—Latin (more than four hundred works), Hebrew, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, and…
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Samuel Abbas
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1693
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Portrait of Solomon Ayllon, Chief Rabbi of the Sephardic Congregations in London and Amsterdam from 1700 to 1728. This portrait was printed at the time of his death to commemorate him.
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Jacobus Houbraken
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1728
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Menachem Vivante (b. 1650) was a rabbi in Corfu in the eighteenth century and a member of a prominent merchant family. In this oil portrait, painted when he was eighty-five years old, he is depicted…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Kérkyra (Corfu), Ottoman Empire (Corfu, Greece)
Date:
1735