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This image depicts the interior of the synagogue that served the Beth Israel congregation in Amsterdam. Before 1639, there were three Sephardic congregations in Amsterdam: Beth Jacob (founded possibly…
Contributor:
Jan Veenhuyzen
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1647
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The only image of the interior of the first synagogue of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, a congregation established in Charleston in 1749, is this picture, painted from memory by Solomon Nunes Carvalho. The…
Contributor:
Solomon Nunes Carvalho
Places:
Charleston, United States of America
Date:
1838
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The Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, is home to the second-oldest congregation in the United States. As Sephardic Jews began emigrating from the Caribbean to colonial America in the…
Contributor:
Peter Harrison
Places:
Newport, British America and the British West Indies (Newport, United States of America)
Date:
1763