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Principios elementales de instruccion |
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religiosa y moral... juventud hebrea |
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[Unrecorded] Angel J. Jesurun |
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Caracas |
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Boliviana por D. Salazar |
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1845 |
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This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
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Unknown and unrecorded first edition. [2], 50, [2 ms. foldouts] pp., 170:97 mm., age staining, upper margins dark stain, all lower margins extended, final 2 ff. replaced in ms. |
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Instruction book to teach Jewish youth religion and morals. The Jesurun family are descendants of Marranos who fled the Spanish Inquisition and settled mainly in Amsterdam and Hamburg. The earliest documentation of Jewish settlement in Caracas dates to 1880 and refers to Jews from Curacao and Coro, many of whom assimilated with local families. The Curacao and Coro communites date to the mid-seventeenth century. In the 1840s the presence of Jews in other Venezuelan cities brought about the establishment of Jewish cemeteries in Caracas, Barcelona, and Puerto Cabello.
This work dates Jews in Caracas to the early 19th century as the need for a textbook indicates children and families. |
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Comunidades Judias de Latinoamerica (1968), 122–6 passim. |
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