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Ep 198 | How Pirates Purloined the Skull and Crossbones From Me

Rabbi Daniel Lapin

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The Industrial Revolution of the Early 1700s

Frankfurt and Hamburg, major cities in Germany welcomed Jews who fled Spain and Portugal. Many former Spanish Jews that were now established in Holland obtained what is called letters of mark from Holland and England allowing them to become privateers. Even the chief rabbi of Amsterdam spent half the year on his beautiful pirate ship working in the Caribbean.

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