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The Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue, Entrance
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Mikve Israel-Emanuel is a synagogue that served the Spanish Portuguese Jewish community in Curaçao (and continues to function today as a Reconstructionist congregation). It is the oldest surviving…

Places:

Willemstad, Dutch Colonial Empire (Willemstad, Curaçao)

Date:

1732

Subjects:

Synagogue, Colonialism, Community, Diaspora, Sephardic

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Photograph of arched entrance to building with Hebrew over lintel.
The Sermon
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For a while there was quiet—a total, final quiet in the room. Then the chairman stirred, beetling his heavy eyebrows, and spoke with gruff, ironical severity: “Comrade Yudka, I call you to order! If…

Contributor:

Chaim Hazaz

Places:

Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Zionism, Diaspora, Humanistic Judaism, Yiddish, Sephardic

Categories:

Literature, Fiction