Posts by Neil van der Linden
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East African women from Zanzibar and the Swahili coast wearing including fabrics from the Dutch Vlisco company and other Dutch companies. Might the Coutinho Brothers have been Dutch? It is a noble Portuguese language surname, but also a Portuguese-Jewish name of a family members of which, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, resided in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Brazil and the West Indies, a...
PORTUGUESE JEWS (The Edict of Expulsion)“At this day also the Abassins affirm that upon the Nilus [Nile] towards the west there inhabiteth a most populous nation of the Jewish stock under a mightie king. And some of our modern cosmographers set down a province in those quarters which they call the land of the Hebrews, placed as it were under the equinoctial, in certain unknown mountains, between t...
Garcia de Orta, a Sephardic Jew, fled Portugal in the face of European Inquisition. Born in Castelo de Vide, Portugal, in 1501, to Spanish Jews—trader Ferno (Isaac) da Orta and Leonor Gomes—he attended university to study medicine, art and philosophy.In March 1534, De Orta sailed to Portuguese India as Chief Physician aboard the fleet of Martim Afonso de Sousa and was eventually appointed Governor...
Garcia de Orta, a Sephardic Jew, fled Portugal in the face of European Inquisition. Born in Castelo de Vide, Portugal, in 1501, to Spanish Jews—trader Ferno (Isaac) da Orta and Leonor Gomes—he attended university to study medicine, art and philosophy.In March 1534, De Orta sailed to Portuguese India as Chief Physician aboard the fleet of Martim Afonso de Sousa and was eventually appointed Governor...
The word Quran (1N77) in medieval judeo-Arabic manuscripts usually means the same thing as the Hebrew word Miqra' (N7770): Bible.In this Judeo-Arabic manuscript about the birth of Moses, the 12th-century Spanish poet Moshe Ibn 'Ezra uses the plural "qur'anãt" (MNIN77 - circled at left) to refer to prophetic books in general and"the great Quran" (DOUNN 1N777N - circled at right) to refer to the Tor...
Garcia de Orta was born in Castelo de Vide, probably in 1501, the son of Fernão (Isaac) da Orta, a merchant, and Leonor Gomes. He had three sisters, Violante, Catarina and Isabel. Their parents were Spanish Jews from Valencia de Alcántara who had taken refuge, as many others did, in Portugal at the time of the great expulsion of the Spanish Jews by the Reyes Catolicos Ferdinand and Isabella of Spa...
Book on the lure of Sephardic on the German so probably partly Ashkenazi Jewry.
Dutch history specialist Jonathan Israel's new book on Spinoza.
Massive history book charts how the Jewish Diaspora reached all corners of the globe
## **Mandel Institute for Nonprofit Leadership Announces New Cultural Fellowship**This two-year fellowship includes a $40,000 stipend for artists and producers aiming to reimagine Jewish life and galvanize action on a range of social issues. Learn more.
Moresca, Moorish Dance. La Istoria de Purim, Musique et Poésie des Juifs en Italie à la Renaissance
However, Rembrandt’s creative potential to use a Jewish model and giving Christ a human face overturned the entire history of Christian iconography that rigidly followed the specific physical description of Jesus Christ.
Rosh Hashanah Sephardic-StyleThree recipes are included in the article. https://jewishjournal.com/culture/food/351458/rosh-hashanah-sephardic-style/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rosh-hashanah-sephardic-styleVia Aimee Dassa Kligman
Moroccan ambassador Mohammed al-Ruzayni, accompanied by Moses Sedero Corsos, charters a ship back home, to Larache or Tanger, in 1771. Via [Thomas Milo](https://www.facebook.com/thomas.milo.7?__cft__[0]=AZXgKRuRoiBqhSVwb59lEnY77UaYOCtPBOHGjM-UVy42aITdWrCt93gWBOWdId38PDW0s_c80jG23u-55hOpXdUt8Th5OJBnhMYoD5C_nimWV_4MU1l4ShyG_RCsQGkIiy-zdJOBDEqte9ljBFxCqmvZe-Z5StRIV0RYwnls7qfctg&__tn__=-]K-R).
Sidewalk tile with a text dating from 1666 by Lodewijk Meijer. ‘As philosophy we don’t consider the guessworks by others, but the true and confident knowledge on the nature of things that reason free of impeding prejudices teaches us.’ Lodewijk Meyer (also Meijer) (bapt. 18 October 1629, Amsterdam – buried 25 November 1681, Amsterdam) was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, translator, lexicogra...
Facebook translate: Samuel PlacheteMoroccan Jewish pirate, born in Pas, son Rabbi, origin from Cordova. Disgrace the Spaniards and fight them, settled in Holland and was one of the Jewish community's settlements there. Achieved the first free trade agreement between the Netherlands and a non-Christian country, Morocco.The descendants of the family are known by the name Flacchi, or Pelache, or Pala...
Facebook translate: Samuel PlacheteMoroccan Jewish pirate, born in Pas, son Rabbi, origin from Cordova. Disgrace the Spaniards and fight them, settled in Holland and was one of the Jewish community's settlements there. Achieved the first free trade agreement between the Netherlands and a non-Christian country, Morocco.The descendants of the family are known by the name Flacchi, or Pelache, or Pala...
We're pleased to announce the production of 'The Other Arabs', a series on Jewish Arabsfrom Iraq, Morocco & Yemen, their cultural identity, history and contributions.**Episode 1** premiered on Monday, February 28: [https://youtu.be/oH1dX9IAJ2A](https://youtu.be/oH1dX9IAJ2A)**Episode 2** will premiere on **Friday, March 18 at 10 am EST (USA)**, 5 pm in Iraq,Jordan & Kuwait, 3 pm in London & 7:30 pm...
Upcoming lecture in the lecture series Decolonising Knowledge organised by the research cluster Religion, Challenge, and Change in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Glasgow=========================================The presentation takes Malabar (Southwestern India) as a case study for investigating the history of disconnections brought about by colonialism from the early modern pe...
We're pleased to announce the production of 'The Other Arabs', a series on Jewish Arabsfrom Iraq, Morocco & Yemen, their cultural identity, history and contributions.**Episode 1** premiered on Monday, February 28: [https://youtu.be/oH1dX9IAJ2A](https://youtu.be/oH1dX9IAJ2A)**Episode 2** will premiere on **Friday, March 18 at 10 am EST (USA)**, 5 pm in Iraq,Jordan & Kuwait, 3 pm in London & 7:30 pm...
The Jewish community of Portugal's northern city of Porto condemned the recent arrest of its leader on Tuesday, comparing allegations of wrongdoing against their local rabbi to the historical persecution of Portuguese Jews at the hands of the Catholic Church.Asked to comment on authorities’ claims that Daniel Litvak had fraudulently furnished a document allowing Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich t...
Up to the 1880's well over half of the Jews residing in the Land of Israel/Palestine were Sephardi and/or came from Muslim countries. Eurocentric Jewish and Zionist historiographies, however, have often overlooked or marginalized these Jews and their activities.This four-part series will shed light on the multi-faceted relationships of Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) ...
Joseph Chetrit. "Music and Poetry as a Shared Cultural Space for Muslims and Jews in Morocco".