Posts by Mark Te Pon
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A sonnet for Sarah de Meza and Abraham de Ishac de Meza from the collection of Jaap Meijer (Amsterdam City Archives), and their marriage ban, Amsterdam, 30 November 1735.
This is - I think the ketuba of Moses Giron from Padua and Colomba Carpi from Verona. Is there a Herbrew reader who can help me and read whether a notary is mentioned?https://archief.amsterdam/inventarissen/scans/334/5.2.6.3.1.3/start/50/limit/10/highlight/9
Interesting new thesis (published 21 December 2022): 'The archaeology of Vlooienburg. Materiality and daily life in multicultural Amsterdam, 1600-1800', phd thesis by Marijn Stolk. In the 1980s, large-scale excavations took place in the centre of Amsterdam, on the location of today's Waterlooplein. The excavations were carries out in advance of the construction of the new town hall and music theat...
# Great news for historical and genealogical researchers interested in 19th century Suriname. The scans of the civic administration (Burgerlijke Stand) are now online on the recently launched website of the National Archives of Suriname. Image birthcertificate of Daniel, son of shopkeeper Joseph Abrabanel and Esther Henriques Fereira, August 8, 1828.https://nationaalarchief.sr/onderzoeken/archieve...
# Just came across this interesting new book: “Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage,” by Hélène Jawhara Piñerhttps://mjsnow.hypotheses.org/6995
Sukkot in Amsterdam, 1781. On the right the Esnoga.
Wallpapers from 18th century found in Portuguese SynagogueDuring work in the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, several 18th-century linen wallpapers were found. The wallpapers were lying in two hidden interspaces in the hechal, the large cabinet where the Torah scrolls are kept. It is not clear when these wallpapers were placed there. However, all indications are that the wallpapers lay there unn...
In his latest column the famous art historian and Rembrandt Expers Gary Schwartz writes about the Sephardic inhabitants of the country house 'De Boomgaard', in Maarssen, the Netherlands, where Schartz lives: "Do you feel kin to people who lived in your house in the past? Schwartz indulges in the exercise, finding out that he is the successor to members of an intertwined Sephardi clan of jewelers a...
#OTD 2 August 1675 the new Portuguese Synagogue of Amsterdam was inaugurated
Le Sermon de Da'an Cardozo. Sinagoge d'Amsterdam, 22 July 1866. Print by P. Durand after a painting by Eduard Brandon (July 3, 1831 – May 20, 1897). The painting in the collection of the Walters Art Museum Baltimore. https://archief.amsterdam/beeldbank/detail/1be8001f-4dec-b86e-8d99-fe4363accac7
The Esnoga (1675) and Grote (1671), just now.
Early modern traveling was of course full of dangers. A short enecdote I came across today. On September 22, 1689, David Aboab of Constantinople (Istanbul), Ruben Jacob of Russia and Jacob Valentinoski of Podolien (in Ukraine), made a statement before an Amsterdam notary about Mordochaij Serfati, son of the prominent and rich merchant Juda Serfati of Constantinople. Mordochaij had recently arrived...
From Newspaper Het Parool, in an article about an upcoming exhibition on by the nazi's looted art. A collaboration of the Jewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam and the Rijksmuseum:"Graphic artist Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (1868-1944) made a portrait of his 17-year-old son Jaap in 1922. The family was deported from their home in 1944. The couple was deported to Auschwitz, where they were murdered....
Our own Ton Tielen talks about Portuguese Jewish Amsterdam at 'Famillement', a biennial Dutch Genealogy Festival, organized by CBG Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis.
## An enslaved family at the Nieuwe Herengracht in AmsterdamIn 1783 Anthony, his wife Magdalena and their son Emanuel were taken from Curaçao to Amsterdam. There they ended up in a house on Nieuwe Herengracht, currently number 105. Anthony was the personal servant of the old merchant Isaac Pardo. Magdalena also worked as a servant. How old Emanuel was and whether he also had to work is not known.A...
Catalogue of the books owned by gem trader Abraham da Fonseca (Hamburg 1638/39-Amsterdam 1711)https://archief.amsterdam/inventarissen/scans/5075/174.2.18/start/60/limit/10/highlight/7
Tzedek ve-Shalom, Paramaribo, in use from 1736 until 1999.
# I'm sure you all know this, but since I just arrived in Suriname, staying the street in the same street, I had to take this picture of the Synagoge Neve Shalom and share it here.
# **'List of *able men* of the Jewish Nation' (Suriname 1675)**Among the 'men' able to wear arms, two women: Mariana Roiz and Hana Roiz Neto. Abraham PereraAbraham SemaAbraham CaunAbraham d: CastrosAron d’: PereraAron d’: SilvaAron d’ DalfonsecaAbraham d’ PinaBarugh de CostaDavid NassijBenjamin PereraDavid PereiraDavid B. CarnassoDaniel MeciaDavid AmsalemIsaacq Jacob PereiraIsaacq da CostaIsaacq G...
# **The tobacco cellars of Rembrandt and Daniel Pinto***Another story from daily life in the Jodenbreestraat Amsterdam, 1650's (published in 'Ons Amsterdam' this month)*Around 1631, Rembrandt van Rijn moved in with the art dealer Hendrick Uylenburg, on the corner of Zwanenburgwal and Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam. In 1639, Rembrandt bought the large house next door - now the Rembrandt House. In tho...
MOKUM is a two-part documentary series about Jewish life in Amsterdam on Dutch National Television. First episode tonight, starting in O Porto.
Completion of excavation of Huis de Meza, Jodensavanne Suriname The excavation of the foundation of Huis de Meza is gradually nearing its end. Last Sunday, work began on excavating the last 5-6 metres of the northern foundation.
House of David Henriques de Castro at the Nieuwe Herengracht in Amsterdam.
Signature of Lea Henriques, alias Antonia Henriques, allias Lea d’Espinosa Henriques, alias Lea Aboab, widow of Isaack Aboab, alias Isaack Jenes, alias Isack Denijs. (Amsterdam, 1698)
This is gonna be amazing: Rembrandt Seen Through Jewish Eyes: The Web Conference. With Gary Schwartz, Simon Schama, Bart Wallet, Steven Nadler and others.