Czech Gendarmes Throwing Away Half Cigarette Stumps for Jews to Pick Up Artworks

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Arrival of Danish Jews in Theresienbad; Czech Gendarms Throwing Away Half Cigarette Stumps; Collecting Planks for Kumbal Artworks

postwar version of F 38346

Half Shekel Coin

Obverse: Silver Half Lira coin. Reverse: A raised reproduction of an ancient silver half-shekel of beaded rim from the third year of the first Jewish revolt against the Romans 66-73 C.E.. At the center of the coin in a chalice inscription in the archaic Hebrew letters.

Half-Shekel Coin

Obverse: Silver Half Lira coin. Reverse: A raised reproduction of an ancient silver half-shekel of beaded rim from the third year of the first Jewish revolt against the Romans 66-73 C.E.. At the center of the coin in a chalice inscription in the archaic Hebrew letters.

Commemoration of Ceremonial Half Sheqel

Obverse: Copy of the ancient half-sheqel coin. Reverse: Stylized Star of David.

Aaron Lopez papers, undated, 1752-1794, 1846, 1852, 1953.

Contains approximately 6800 manuscripts arranged chronologically by year for years 1752-1794. Approximately 100 are letters received or written by Lopez, his partner and father-in-law, Jacob Rodriguez Rivera, members of his family and company, and commercial agents pertaining to business activities and sailing orders for the captains of various ships. Several also refer to personal matters and acquaintances, including a series of six letters from Silas Cooke of White Hall (Middletown), R.I., to Aaron Lopez, asking his aid in returning a run-away slave (1776). The great majority of the collection consists of account records, bills of sale, orders, shipping agreements, lists of sailors on the various ships, repair records and cargo invoices. Of particular interest are a receipt for payment of a half-year's subscription to the "tzedakah" of Congregation Nefutzei Israel, Newport (1755) and several documents that reveal Lopez as a supplier of kosher meat and other religious articles to people in various parts of the colonies, Surinam, and Jamaica. Also included in this group are copies of sailing lists, documents pertaining to Lopez's naturalization which shed light upon the status of a Jew applying for citizenship in Massachusetts and a check to Lopez from the United States government for a loan made during the Revolutionary War (1779).

Letter from Moses Levy regarding New York congregation's agreement to pay half cost for return of Reverend H. H. Samuel Cohen

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