Christopher Sellars

For more than ten years I have been diligently searching for a 400 year old Hebrew manuscript, yesterday I found it ! The document comprises three pages with about one thousand words on each page in, thankfully, very clear script.As far as I am aware this document has never been transcribed or translated in full, hence the motive for this post. I would like to consult the combined knowledge of t...

This is the Sephardic cemetery in Middelburg, Zeeland, it is where the true "First Rabbi in the Americas" Jacob Franco Lagarto is buried..Este é o cemitério sefardita em Middelburg, Zelândia, onde o verdadeiro "Primeiro Rabino das Américas" Jacob Franco Lagarto está enterrado.

.... Uma lista de pessoas no Brasil que deviam dinheiro à WIC (Companhia Holandesa das Índias Ocidentais) 1644/45.Centenas de nomes..A List of people in Brazil who owed money to the WIC (Dutch West Indies Company) 1644/45.Hundreds of names.

A question for the collective knowledge :- In the 17th. C. how and by whom was a Sephardic synagogue founded, and who conferred the title ? ....... Thanks, Chris.Uma pergunta para o conhecimento coletivo:- No seculo 17 como e por quem foi fundada uma sinagoga sefardita e quem conferiu o título? ....... Obrigado, Chris.

**JODEN SAVANNE - JEWISH SAVANNAH - SURINAM**This 17th century settlement on the Surinam River was created in large part by Sephardim from Brazil. There is a possibility that some of Itamaracá's Jewish Congregation moved here via Cayenne in 1645 when the Insurreição Pernambucana erupted. CORRECTION !!! Apparently the existence of the colony in the 1640s is a myth......Just received from Israel :- ...

.....................DOTAR SEPHARDIC CHARITY AMSTERDAM - 1615............. . Slowly putting together the history of Jacob Franco Lagarto, the Rabbi of the Sephardi Congregation in Vila Velha on the Island of Itamaracá, Pernambuco. This detail is his signature in 1637 on a document in which he accepts membership of the "Dotar" in Amsterdam. It was considered an honour to be part of this charity, an...

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THIS IS ABOUT THE TRUE FIRST PORTUGUESE RABBI IN THE AMERICAS - PLEASE READ BEFORE DECLINING ! The codex contains a collection of esoteric texts transcribed by R. Jacob Lagarto in 1635 onthe eve of his departure from Holland for the newly acquired Dutch settlement in Recife,Brazil.www.academia.edu/35687010/MS198_R_Jacob_Lagarto_s_Collection_of_Kabbalah_and_Hekhalot_Texts_An_introductory_note_by_J...

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.... A connection to the Henriques family ?.

. ... Many thanks to Ainsley, Ton and David ! A most enjoyable interview, the best one yet ! :-) .

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.:-) Sephardic bare-knuckle prize fighters !!! . PS: Smitham bottom is where I grew up, it is today's Coulsdon that used to be part of the County of Surrey !.

......................DOTAR SEPHARDIC CHARITY AMSTERDAM - 1615..............Slowly putting together the history of Jacob Franco Lagarto, the Rabbi of the Sephardi Congregation in Vila Velha on the Island of Itamaracá, Pernambuco. This detail is his signature in 1637 on a document in which he accepts membership of the "Dotar" in Amsterdam. It was considered an honour to be part of this charity, and...

...... 98,000 historical documents from the Guyanese National Archive have been digitalized and are available online at the Dutch National Archives..

.THE SEPHARDIC CEMETERY, MIDDELBURG, ZEELAND, NL..

."Magen David" being used by Jonathan Levy as his "mark" on his cases of sugar exported from Pernambuco, Brazil. during the dutch period..

OHEL JACOB - JACOB'S TENTOhel Jacob is the title of a book of Talmudic Aforisms written by Jacob Franco Lagarto the Haham, (Chief Rabbi), of the Sephardic Congregation on Itamaracá island in 1635.Isaac Aboab, who first came to Brazil seven years later in 1642 owned a copy of Lagarto's book, and it was listed on page 16 of an auction catalogue prepared in 1693 by David Tartas for the sale of Aboab'...

.History repeats ................ ;-)In the period 1635-6 a liturgical enquiry, dealing with a particular prayer for rain, was sent from Dutch Brazil to Amsterdam, from where it was relayed to Salonika. Apparently, neither the missive nor the "Responsa", which were both written in Hebrew Script, contained any indication of the identity of the enquirer. Does anybody have a copy of the corresponden...

Does anybody know how to obtain access to this document/book ? It is the sales/auction catalogue of Isaac Aboab's library, prepared by David Tartas in 1693, on the sixteenth page is purported to be annoted the book of aphorisms, "Ohel Yacov", written by Jacob Franco Lagarto the Haham of the Sephardic Congregation on the island of Itamaracá. Any help is most welcome ! thanks, Chris.I just checked...

Ohel Jacob is the title of a book of Talmudic Aforisms written by Jacob Franco Lagarto the Haham, (Chief Rabbi), of the Sephardic Congregation on Itamaracá island in 1635.Isaac Aboab, who first came to Brazil seven years later in 1642 owned a copy of Lagarto's book, and it was listed on page 16 of an auction catalogue prepared in 1693 by David Tartas for the sale of Aboab's collection of 400 books...