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Subject: Jews, Dutch


Decision of the Deputies of the States of North Holland concerning a request from M. Suasso da Costa to support indigent members of the Suasso Family Fund, April 18, 1844 Decision of the Deputies of the States of North Holland concerning a request from M. Suasso da Costa to support indigent members of the Suasso Family Fund, April 18, 1844

Decision of the Deputies of the States of North Holland concerning a request from M. Suasso da Costa to support indigent members of the Suasso Family Fund. This legal document, dated April 18, 1844, is part of a larger collection of manuscripts relating to the Dutch-Jewish noble families de Pinto and Lopes. It is related to a will and the administration of the Suasso Family Fund.

Order of the Consecration of the New Synagogue of the Congregation B'nai Israel Order of the Consecration of the New Synagogue of the Congregation B'nai Israel

This is a program for the consecration ceremony of the new synagogue of Congregation B'nai Israel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, held on Thursday, January 8, 1857 (12th of Tebeth 5617). Published by R. Stein, the program details the order of service for the event. The Congregation B'nai Israel was founded by Dutch Ashkenazi Jews in the 1850s and served as an important ethnic synagogue before merging with other congregations in 1879.