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Bidding Information
Lot #    21480
Auction End Date    8/12/2008 1:16:21 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Deed
Title (Hebrew)    щиш
Author    [Ms.]
City    Gibraltar
Publication Date    1850
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [2] pp., 226:180 mm., light age staining, some ink corrosion, ink on paper, neat Moroccan rabbinic script, signed and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    Jews have lived in Gibraltar since the 14th century, in 1356 a community appeal for assistance in the ransoming of Jews captured by pirates is recorded. The Treaty of Utrecht (1713), that ceded the fortress to England, excluded the Jews from Gibraltar in perpetuity. However, by an agreement in 1729 between England and the sultan of Morocco, his Jewish subjects were empowered to come there temporarily for purpose of trade, and the establishment of a permanent community followed soon thereafter. The majority of the Jewish settlers were from adjacent parts of North Africa. By 1749, when the legal right of Jewish settlement was recognized, the community numbered about 600, being about one-third of the total number of civilian residents, and there were two synagogues. In the middle of the 19th century, when the Rock was at the height of its importance as a British naval and military base, the Jewish community numbered about 2,000 and most of the retail trade was in their hands, but thereafter the number declined. The community still maintains four synagogues and many communal organizations.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Gibraltar
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica