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Text of an Excommunication
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This text of an excommunication, found in David Aboab’s manuscript of Sefer emet ve-yatsiv (True and Certain), chronicles a conflict in the Sephardic congregation of Curaçao. The first Jews arrived in…

Contributor:

David Aboab

Places:

Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)

Date:

1745

Subjects:

Excommunication, Sephardic, Colonialism, Holidays, Sukkot

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, Print & Book Culture
Facing-page manuscript with Hebrew text.