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(AMERICAN-JUDAICA) Benjamin Raphael Dias Brandon. Emek Binyamin [responsa] First Edition. ff. (2), 22. Ex-library, browned. Recent boards. 8vo. Vinograd, Amsterdam 1682. Amsterdam: Jan Jansson 1753 The earliest Rabbinic text relating to Jews in the Americas. Includes a Halachic inquiry concerning laws of inheritance from Aaron Ledesma, Rabbi of the Dutch colony of Surinam (f. 22v). See I & S. Emmanuel, History of the Jews of the Netherlands Antilles, Vol. I, p. 178 and M. Silber, America in Hebrew Literature (1928) pp. 41-2. The earliest Rabbinic text relating to Jews in the Americas. Includes a Halachic inquiry concerning laws of inheritance from Aaron Ledesma, Rabbi of the Dutch colony of Surinam (f. 22v). See I & S. Emmanuel, History of the Jews of the Netherlands Antilles, Vol. I, p. 178 and M. Silber, America in Hebrew Literature (1928) pp. 41-2.