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Inventory of Household Goods of Nathan Levy
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The inventory of the goods belonging to Philadelphia Jewish merchant Nathan Levy includes religious books in Judeo-Spanish, as well as numerous secular classical books and musical instruments

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Nathan Levy

Places:

Philadelphia, British America and the British West Indies (Philadelphia, United States of America)

Date:

1753

Subjects:

Life cycle, Death, Libraries, Colonialism, Economic life

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Lists & Catalogues, Household Objects, Reference Works
Typed list in English.
Catalogo dos Libros que Semuel Ben Israel Soeiro Vende (Catalogue of Books for Sale by Samuel Ben Israel Soeiro)
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These three pages come from a catalogue of books listed for sale by Samuel Ben Israel Soeiro, a bookseller in Amsterdam. It lists first the Hebrew books and then the ones in Spanish. He printed the…

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Samuel ben Israel Soeiro, Menasseh Ben Israel

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1652

Subjects:

Print, Libraries, Jewish languages, Economic life, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Lists & Catalogues
Printed page in Portuguese with two narrow columns on right of main text.
Letter to A. Neubauer at Oxford University
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To his excellency, the great sage, the learned and famous rabbiAdolf H. Neubauer, the Head LibrarianOf the Government Library in Oxford, England! My dear Sir and Rabbi!Although I have not hitherto…

Contributor:

Abraham Dubzhevitch

Places:

Kiev, Russian Empire (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Date:

1890

Subjects:

Education, Scholarship, Writing, Libraries, Bible

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Letters, Firsthand Accounts

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