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Gravestone of Abraham Pereira d’Azevedo
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The first Jewish community was established in Kingston, Jamaica by refugees from Spain and Portugal after 1492. This tombstone in the cemetery of She‘are Shalom Synagogue marks the grave of Abraham…

Places:

Kingston, Great Britain (Kingston, Jamaica)

Date:

1722

Subjects:

Gravestones, Cemetery, Mourning, Economic life, Death

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Inscriptions
Tombstone with Latin inscription on top half and illustration below of axe chopping tree in half, surrounded by English words around perimeter of stone.
De la resurrección de los muertos (On the Resurrection of the Dead)
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Book III: In which the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the dead are proved against the Sadducees. The causes of the miraculous resurrection are explained, and the final judgment and…

Contributor:

Menasseh Ben Israel

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1636

Subjects:

Polemics, Death, Afterlife, Theology

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology

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