Posts by Joel S Davidi
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What series of events led to the demise of the Portuguese-Jewish community in German Danzig in the early 17th century? [https://jewishlink.news/features/48862-avraham-the-wanderer](https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fjewishlink.news%2Ffeatures%2F48862-avraham-the-wanderer%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0Cp_8RNbzxH616X2lG2gxHK89bBIwHf6BWdp-UNqd7dd2nElVQQlD-M9k&h=AT1ahYffot_OPiMBXSqyNbn9sAuRA-mM6rNtUoz8U5...
Is there a database of names of all the (known) Jewish victims of the inquisition? If not, why not?
Does anyone know more about this and why it didn’t seem to have panned out? In 1938 there was a plan to relocate the Hamburg Portuguese to a colony in the Dutch West Indies. This was of course shortly before the shoah.
In this weeks column I take a look at the Sephardic-Ashkenazic encounter in the Holy Land.
Hi everyone!I hope this message finds you safe and well. I’m excited to announce that I will be joined this night (Wed. July 8 ), at 8:30pm EST via Zoom with a very special and interesting guest. Abraham Katz heads the Biurei Hatefilah institute which studies the development of various customs and prayer rites that developed among different communities over the past two millennia of Jewish history...
We discussed the phenomenon of Ashkenazim who claim Sephardic ancestry among other things. See also part II here:https://youtu.be/MQjJZHPtFGA
Our preconceived notions of who was Sephardi and who was Ashkenazi is upended by taking a closer look at Jewish History in the Early Modern Period.
Does anyone have any .pdf of articles or books, in Hebrew and or English, on the Portuguese community in Hamburg? I found this fascinating excerpt from a biography of Haganah commander (and Hamburg-born) David Shealtiel but I’m looking for more (about him and his family and about the community in general). Gracias.
Anyone know any details on the Sutro family from Germany?I assume they were Sephardic based on some other sources but I could be wrong.
https://www.jewishlinknj.com/features/27217-rav-haim-david-halevi-an-underappreciated-sephardic-gadol
More info needed on this apparently not very well known Sephardic, writer, translator, and historian. *1865(17th of Tammuz, 5625): Author and historian Elias Chaim Lindo, the native of St. Thomas who settled in London in 1832 where he published several works including History of the Jews of Spain and Portugal passed away today.
My short-version response to Alex Beider's minimalist position on Sephardim in Eastern Europe. I call for a much more nuanced approach on the subject.
1598: “In the archives of the city of Amsterdam, probably the oldest date dealing with Portuguese Jews is today, when there was entered in the "Puyboek," v. 22b, the announcement of the intended marriage of Manuel Lopez Homé and Maria Nuñez”
1665(30th of Cheshvan, 5426): Ephraim Hezekiah Bueno “a distinguished Dutch physician” and who “in 1650, in conjunction with Jonah Abravanel, published several liturgical works, among which were a Spanish translation of the Psalms, entitled "Psalterio de David, en Hebrayco Dicho Thehylim, Transladado con Toda Fidelidad Verbo de Verbo del Hebrayco," passed away today in Amsterdam.
>>[his mother] the former Rosa Salvatha, of Sephardi-Jewish heritage<< https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/this-day-in-jewish-history/1.680188I wonder if she was in fact from a Sephardi family that settled in Lithuania (although I have researched the topic of Sephardim in Eastern Europe for many years now, I am constantly faced with incredulity by scholars and laymen alike who believe the phenomenon w...
Anyone know anything about a Rabbi Moses Rose who served as a Rabbi of the Portuguese community ("Hekhal Sinai") in either Philadelphia or NY? The link is about his better-known father.
http://www.jewishpress.com/sections/magazine/glimpses-ajh/jacob-de-la-motta-early-american-jewish-medical-pioneer/2017/08/31/
I've come across many instances where Ashkenazim served as the spiritual heads of Sephardic congregations (and this is hardly a "recent" phenomenon). Is anyone aware of the converse?
https://medium.com/@joelsdavidi/emissaries-from-the-holy-land-or-shlukhei-drakhmana-87bcc3608bfc
1693(27th of Adar II, 5453): Eighty-eight year old Rabbi Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, a kabbalist, scholar and leader of the Dutch Jewish community passed away.Notice Aboab's name אבואב is in the chronogramThank you Aaron Sterk for pointing this out.
I am looking for a co-author for my book on Sephardim in Eastern Europe. If you believe that you have the qualifications and/or you posses good organizational skills, or know someone who does, please contact me. Thanks! Joels
I am looking for a co-author for my book on Sephardim in Eastern Europe. If you believe that you have the qualifications and/or you posses good organizational skills, there may be some money and fame in it for you. Please contact me.
Who is this? Dobrin?
Anyone know anything about this case?THIS DAY IN JEWISH HISTORY#tdih#tdijh1624(16th of Iyar): Elias Lipiner was sentenced to death at an auto-de-fe by the Portuguese Inquisition. He was accused of committing the crime of using Jewish names and writing in Hebrew. On this same day Dr. Antonio Honem was sentenced to death for observing Jewish ceremonies.
A possible etymology for the term 'marrano'?This is the first time I've come across this.marrano from מראה עין and not derived from the pejorative مُحَرّمٌ See here from the 5:55 mark.