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Confirmation of the Old Regulations and Decisions
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    The mahamad [congregation board] shall have supreme authority over everything. And no one shall be able to contravene the decisions taken and promulgated by the said mahamad, nor shall they sign any…

Contributor:

Kahal Talmud Torah of the Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1639

Subjects:

Government, Leadership, Communal organizations, Family, Excommunication

Categories:

Law, Legal Codes
Diálogo dos montes (The Controversy of the Mountains)
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Zetim:How blessed and how happy must that manA thousand times be called who acknowledgesOne God alone, a single entity.Gerizim:How happy and how blessed must he beWho in God’s holy Law meditatesBoth…

Contributor:

Reuel Jessurun

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1624

Subjects:

Piety, Theology, Leadership, Community, Shavuot

Categories:

Performing Arts, Theater/Drama, Literature
Memórias do estabelecimento e progresso dos judeus portuguezes e espanholes nesta famosa cidade de Amsterdam (Account of the Establishment and Progress of the Portuguese and Spanish Jews in This Famous City of Amsterdam)
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On the night of 20 Iyar 5503 [May 14, 1743], the sad news was announced regarding the death of the most exemplary ḥazan [cantor] R. Sem[uel] Rod[rigue]s Mendes, in…

Contributor:

David Franco Mendes

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1743

Subjects:

Cantor, Profession, Community, Communal organizations, Leadership

Categories:

History, Historical Writing