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Hear, O Israel, descendants of holy ones: see that newcomers have recently arrived intending to make grapes, but instead have produced wild grapes [see Isaiah 5:2]. There is no local foundation for…
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Unknown
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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poland)
Date:
Second Half of the 17th Century
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Let the elders rejoice and the discerning be glad, the students and rabbis be happy, and the princes and the officers, and the wealthy and the needy exult, with the poor and those lacking sustenance…
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Judah Leyb Zelichover
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Altona, Denmark (Altona, Germany)
Date:
1635
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At a meeting of the Elders and Parnassim this day Mr Heyman Levy paid the fine for refusing serving Parnass Last year, it was at the same time voted by…
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Congregation Shearith Israel of New York
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New York, British America and the British West Indies (New York City, United States of America)
Date:
1757–1758
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On the south it is separated from the synagogue of the Polish and German Jews by a branch of the River Amstel; on the west it faces the opulent Casa de los lázaros [hospice for the poor]; on the north…
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Daniel Levi de Barrios
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1675