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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…

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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.
Tzedek ve-Shalom Synagogue, Suriname
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Built in 1736, the Tzedek ve-Shalom synagogue served a Sephardic congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had migrated from Holland to Suriname. Located in Suriname’s capital of Paramaribo, the…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Paramaribo, Dutch Colonial Empire (Paramaribo, Suriname)

Date:

1736

Subjects:

Synagogue, Community, Colonialism, Art, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
Photograph of rectangular room with arched windows, floor covered in sand, wooden cabinet on far wall, wooden benches on left side and along walls, and wooden lectern on right side.
Discourse Delivered at the Consecration of the Synagogue of the Hebrew Congregation Mickve Israel, in the City of Savannah, Georgia, 21 July 1820
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Assembled as we are, to re-establish by commemoration, (2) the Congregation of this remnant or small portion of the house of Israel; your expectation of a brief sketch of our History, and particularly…

Contributor:

Jacob de la Motta

Places:

Savannah, United States of America

Date:

1820

Subjects:

Community, Migration, Diaspora, Colonialism, Cities

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Sermons, Political Culture