Posts by Michael Waas
138 posts
Semanada buena a todos de los myembros!סימאנאדה בואינה אה טוד׳וס דיי לוס מיאמברוס!
Nardo Bonomi published the following announcement in the SephardicSIG of JewishGen today:I published and academic research "La comunità ebraica di Siena nel Seicentoe la disputa fra italiani e spagnoli. Il censimento" [The Jewish Communityof Sienna in the seventeenth century and the dispute between the Italian andSpanish Jews. The census.] in the reveiw "La Rassegna Mensile di Israel",2015.This re...
One of the more fascinating interactions that occurred amongst Eastern Sephardim and Mizrahi Jewry. The influences of Sufism in Eastern Jewry.
Upcoming schedule of tours at Ets Haim library.
Even though I don't agree with everything he did, it is worth noting his passing as someone who also cared deeply about the Sephardi tradition. יהי זכרונו לברכה
For those of us with an interest in the Sephardi community in Livorno, here is the index to the Decima in the State Archives of Livorno. Fernando González-delCampo Román this is for you.
Ton Tielen has found yet another gem in the Amsterdam PJC archive concerning my family. I would love to get a rough translation/transcription of the Portuguese in this, it is concerning my ancestor Jacob Vaz Lopes and the reason he returned to Amsterdam from Sale (likely). He was likely ransomed! Florbela Veiga Frade, Gui Maia de Loureiro, want to take a look?
Does anyone have access to the article "CASE E PROPRIETARI A LIVORNO NEL SEICENTO"?
Ian Pomerantz, your response pointing towards your participation on the Sephardic musicology roundtable from a few years ago, reminded me. My grandfather's family was very steeped in the Turkish Maftirim tradition, his grandfather and great-grandfather were Hazanim in Izmir. Dov Cohen found this extract from the Izmirli newspaper "El Nouvelista" concerning my great-great grandfather Hazan Yaacov R...
I am now encouraged that even UCLadino is seemingly only using the name Ladino as a way to catch people's eye, nothing more. This looks like an excellent series of papers and I look forward to reading it.
Aron Sterk, here is Abraham Vaz Lopes and Sipora Israel (Giyoret)'s kettubah.
More debunking of the idea that the language of us Ottoman Sephardim is "Ladino".
Hi, does anyone have access to a PDF copy of "Noble Families Among the Sephardic Jews"? Unfortunately, it seems I don't have many options beyond buying a copy myself currently. I am interested in specifically, the sections on the Capadose family which seems to have intersected into my current research. Thanks!
Hi everyone, please no reposting of articles that have already been up for discussion. I have deleted several postings of the lovely interview with Dominique Vidal already. We appreciate the enthusiasm but please don't clutter the page and instead come to the discussions that have already taken place. Thanks
Hi, if you are the direct male line descendant of a member of the Portuguese Sephardi communities of Amsterdam/London and their associated communities in France, Germany, Italy, and the New World, please contact me. Myself and Wim Penninx have just begun a DNA project that will be focused on these communities in collaboration with a larger archival research project. For now, we are focusing on the...
I had no idea that El Ameneser was continuing since their website hasn't been updated in 3 years. I hope to get my subscription soon!
I'll have to watch more of them, but I was just caught by how tone deaf the USC Shoah foundation (or at least their representative in this case) questions are in regards to Sephardic survivors of the Shoah. I am watching the Shoah testimony of my grandfather's cousin for the first time and the woman asked if "they spoke Yiddish?". Just depressing. For the record, he was born in my great-grandmothe...
Francesca Bregoli, I wonder if you know the answer. Was it possible for a family to gain Tuscan citizenship with the claim "originario di Livorno" from a maternal ancestor that then gets passed down along a paternal line?
Fascinating conference at the end of the month at Bar Ilan University on Converso discourse. I hope to attend!
In response to the question regarding the Molho family that recently came up, I am sharing R' Michael Molho's article on his family and the connections between Salonika and Jerusalem. Happy to translate any part of the article that is requested.
Today in Jerusalem they are having a ceremony to honor Rabbi Moise Shimon Pessah, Chief Rabbi of Volos during the Shoah. Together with the archbishop of the town, they managed to save almost the entire Volos community, which helped save so much of my grandfather's family who had moved to Volos after Larissa and Salonika. He was also the student of my ancestor, Rabbi David Angel who I posted about ...
Of interest, I am at a lecture honoring Dr. Yaacov Barnai and his new book on the Jewish community of Izmir. It is in Hebrew (both the lecture and the book) but should be very interesting. My advisor Dr. Minna Rozen is speaking as well as another professor of mine Shai Srugo. I will post a link to the book later when I am at my computer.
Gui Maia de Loureiro: I have a question regarding the genealogy on a processo. It is pages 39-42, I am trying to figure out if this Mendes Sereno family mentioned is the same as one I have been researching. My poor grasp of Portuguese doesn't help me too much other than basic understanding...thanks! http://digitarq.dgarq.gov.pt/viewer?id=2302183
Today means another request for another Kettubah translation! Looking to see if there is any information about the groom and or if they had a notary. Thanks! (Note, it's the kettubah on the left, not the right, page)
A beautiful kettubah from the collection of Ets Haim Library. Amongst other special things about it, it is one of the few documents surviving with the handwriting of Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel.