Posts by Gabriel Morais
13 posts
Looking for information about the garcês family which settled in Amsterdam
Looking for jewish archives in ferrara and livorno, any suggestions? Family Negro. Also, looking for venice inquisition archives.
Hello all, I'm looking for Gibraltar jews who settled in funchal, madeira island.
Jews in Madeira, Portugal :
It is an exemple of the destiny of some jewish manuscript in Portugal after the Conversion/Expulsion and during the Inquisition :
There is an equivalent of the מימונה in the Western sephardi tradition ?
Hi everybody, I am actually looking for a specialist/expert in portuguese jewish diaspora and genealogy. Suggestions?
Hi, anyone knows if there is any work about menasseh ben Israel or isaac aboab da fonceca's genealogies?
Hi everyone! I'm reading the book "Thesouro dos denim". I always heard that S&P jews have some particularities about kosher time between milk and meat, but in this book it seems very standard. Anyone knows the practices of S&P jews about this point ? By the way, are the writes of Manasseh ben Israel still authority in Amsterdam community practices ? London ? Thanks!
I've just received the siddurim for weekdays and shabbat I ordered from Shearith Israel (NY) and I'm actually considering to order those from London and Amsterdam, any suggestion what I should order and where (Amsterdam) ? In the online store of Hashaim there is a siddurim: Daily and Occasional Prayer Book, but it seems based on D. A. de Sola one (the one from NY ?) and there are three different s...
Did anyone purchase a siddur from the Shearith Israel Community (NY) ? I've been trying to purchase one, I wrote an e-mail to the person on charge of international orders (I live in Canada) who replied me asking my address and after that not at all...
Hi everyone, yesterday at my community (mix of Ashkenazi and Sephardic jews) we talked about the different traditions in the way to put on tefillin. There is a special tradition for S&P jews ?