CHAPTER VI

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RECIFE: THE FIRST JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE NEW WORLD.

The “Kahal Kodesh” of Recife or Pernambuco in Brazil――Manasseh ben Israel’s expectation to make it his home――Large immigration from Amsterdam――Isaac Aboab da Fonseca and his colleagues―― First rabbis and Jewish authors of the New World――The siege and the surrender――The return, and the nucleus of other communities in various parts of America.

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