Posts by Fernando GonzálezdelCampo
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Ten days ago I wrote in my facebook about the falsifications of genealogies of Spanish conversos that have been made to aply to the Spanish citizenship on the base of having Sephardic ancestry according to one Spanish law of 2015. In practice, the benefits of this law have been surprisingly extended to descendants of conversos, so Judaizers as no Judaizers. I thought that this fraud had been stopp...
Genealogy of Francisco Rodrigues Lobo or de Medina and his wife Gracia Pereira alias Ribca
On October 28, 2017, I gave a lecture in Santa Cruz de Tenerife about the Canary Islands as a destination for Jewish converts and a starting point to America. After an introduction on the importance of the year 1492 for Spain, the Jews, America and the Canary Islands, I focused on the causes of the presence of Judeo-converts in these islands, the persecution that crypto-Jews suffered by the Canari...
I have nothing about Mordechai, Mardoqueo in Spanish and Mardoqueu in Catalan. Jassuda Bédarride, in "Grandezas y miserias de un pueblo: los judíos en Francia, Italia y España, desde su dispersión hasta nuestros días" (1947), https://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=iFUBAAAAMAAJ&dq=Mardoqueo+Lates+Toledo+m%C3%A9dico&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Bonnet, mentions a Jew named Bonnet in relation to the lo...
An article in Spanish from diariojudio.com (Mexico), dated on July 2016, about the Portuguese (and German and Ashkenazi) Jewish cemetery of Altona, Hamburg, Germany, and the Portuguese community of this town: http://diariojudio.com/opinion/el-cementerio-portugues-de-hamburgo/202469/ . I found it in the blog in Spanish of Geneanet about "Actualidades genealógicas", http://es.geneanet.org/bloges/pos...
"El tribunal de la fe censurado: prácticas rituales, pasquines y rumores contra la Inquisición novohispana (1602-1734)" [Court of Faith Censored: Ritual Practices, Lampoons and Rumors Against New Spain’s Inquisition], article by Natalia Silva Prada (2016), in Fronteras de la Historia, vol. 21, num. 1, enero-junio, 2016, pp. 146-180, Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, Bogotá, Colombia...
Simona, the first Sephardi who has obtained the Spanish citizenship by means of the bill that grants it to Sephardic Jews with Spanish origins. She is from Tétouan, Morocco, 80 years old and lives in Paris. Her son Daniel Jalfon went back seven generations in the last months.
Archeologists have found an unknown part of the wall of the Jewry of Toledo and of one of its gates, dated in the 14th century.
In 2005 William S. Kurtz published an article in Spanish, "Judíos en Badajoz: algunas notas a partir de la documentación del Archivo Catedralicio de Badajoz", about the Jews of the town of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, according to the documents of the Archives of the Cathedral of Badajoz. They are Jews from the 13th century until 1492. Their synagogue, jewry, cemetery and one rabbi are also mentio...
The videos of the "Mapping the Anousim Diaspora" Conference celebrated in March in Netanya, Israel, have been published. The video of my paper, Reconstruction of transnational Sephardic crypto-Jew genealogies in Western Europe in the seventeenth century, is too among them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRRBHj5DS8E&list=PLJZqKMndSpAnwtk5bBynrlKtpXdr-bOpe&index=4 . I choosed as example a notorious...