Posts by Ramon Weber
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Dear friends,today I show you a sephardic treasure from my private collection I bought a large private library from a jewish collector and found this rare book"Markevet HaMishna", printed 1755 in Izmir (Smyrna)The author is Rabbi Aaron ben Moshe Alfandari (1700 Smyrna - 1774 Hebron)Hope you like it !
Yesterday I found this beautiful copper engraving (Romain De Hooghe 1675) in an antiquarian bookshopAn inside view of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam On the left and on the right are many interesting names
This is the grave of Melanie Cardozo on the jewish cemetery Hamburg-OhlsdorfWhat do you know about the origin of the Cardozo family from Hamburg ?
From my private collectionA rare testimony of a destroyed and vanished sephardic worldChanukkia from SalonikiThe inscript says: Ki ner mitzvah ve Tora or - to light a candle is a mandatory and the Tora is the light
Some postcards from Saloniki (dated 1917)Yaakov Meir (1856 Jerusalem - 1939 Jerusalem)Chief Rabbi of Saloniki (1908 - 1919)Son of the merchant Calev Mercado Meir What do we know about his origin ?
A find in the Jewish Enzyclopedia Funk & Wagnalls ,New York 1901-1906Sephardic coats of Arms
Another find on the jewish cemetery Hamburg OhlsdorfWhat do we know about the family of Benny Senior ?Born December 28th 1884 in CuracaoDied May 27th 1922 in a small village near Hamburg
Dear friends,I need a little bit help !This is a memorial tombstone on the sephardic field of the jewish cemetery Hamburg OhlsdorfWho can translate the inscript ?Thank you for your help !
Dear friends,I found a photo documentation (dated 1936) of the jewish cemetery in Hamburg-KönigstraßeThe photographer was Max Halberstadt (14.5.1882 Hamburg - 30.12.1940 Johannesburg/Southafrica)He was married with the daughter of Sigmund Freud
For Miriam Bauer !The grave of your great-grandmother Henriette Meldola
Dear friends, today I visited the jewish cemetery in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld (established 1873) and found a small area with sephardic tombstonesFamily names:BrandonCrastoAbensurAbudientePizaMeldolaPardoLuriaDelmonteBravoDe Lemos
Dear friends,today I was again on the jewish cemetery Hamburg-Königstraße an have a lot of photos for youI hope it helps a little bitFamily names:Esteves FidanqueCoronel NamiasFidalgo Brandon Brandao Henriques-Mesquito AbudienteRocamora Pereira Abendana-Mendes Da Fonseca De Lima Da Costa Ximenes Pimentel Montezino Lubato Musaphia Abas De Castro
Today on the jewish cemetery Hamburg-Königstraße
Dear friends,today I found 3 graves of the Da Costa family (born in St.Thomas, West Indies) in Hamburg OhlsdorfDo you have some informations about the Da Costa family ?
Some sephardic graves in Hamburg OhlsdorfFamily names:De Lima - De Lemos - Pardo - Cardozo - Belmonte - Luria - Jessurun - Cassuto - Meldola - Delmonte - Algava - Bravo - Ascoli - Souza - Piza
For David Laloum !Jewish costumes from Tunisia on old postcards
Yesterday I have visited the only undestroyed Synagogue in Hamburg This was the last Synagogue of the sephardic community (Innocentiastraße 37) !Inaugurated 14.march 1935.In 1939 the german nationalsocialists converted the building to a "Judenhaus" from where the last Sephardim were deported to the deathcamps......Today the building is in private hands and some non-jewish families live in itThe ph...
Yesterday I met a facebook friend from Denmark and we found many graves of his ashkenasic ancestors on the jewish cemetery in Hamburg-OhlsdorfIn the sephardic area I saw this Jessurun graveAdam Van Jessurun Hymans is this your ancestor from Hamburg ?
Dedicated to Phil Belinfante !The Ohel of Semuel de Abraham Cohen Lobatto
Dear friends, today I was on the jewish cemetery Hamburg-Ohlsdorf and found this sephardic grave in the ashkenazic areaRosaura Senior , born Henriquez 14.October 1874 Curacao - 30.September 1926 Hamburg
A relict from Sefarad500-600 years old Thora manuscript from SpainIt's a fragment of a destroyed Sefer Thora Exodus 24:18 - 26:8
Sefardi Graves in Hamburg-AltonaFotos: Ramon Weber - Hamburg