## ***SEPHARDIC WORLD MEETING***## ***THE AMSTERDAM AND LONDON POOR***The popular conception is that Sephardim in Amsterdam and London were rich. Sadly this is not the case. This week we shall discuss impoverished Sephardim - maybe half the community - and how the community leaders managed the situation. There is a wealth of records in the archives dealing with the Sephardic poor, including the support they received from the congregations, including at festivals, and how they were managed and di...
**Sephardic World Meeting - Sunday 13th September 2020**## **THE AMSTERDAM NOTARIAL ARCHIVES***Note for the members of this FB Group: The Amsterdam Notarial Archives also have numerous documents on family and trade relations between the Sephardim of Amsterdam and those of Morocco.*The Amsterdam Notarial Archives (1578-1915) contain millions of documents with largely unknown details about Amsterdammers and their international networks. These include records of trade with Inquisition Spain and Por...
## "Les juifs portugais, le Maroc et les Dix Tribus Perdues"Nice article by Mercedes García-Arenal, Spanish historian, wrote the book about Samuel Pallache, Jew from Morocco, together with Gerard Wiegers. Academia is free once you have signed up. You have to endure some irritating adverts, but it has a wealth of content. The link to the article: [https://www.academia.edu/1383888/_Les_juifs_portugais_le_Maroc_et_les_Dix_Tribus_Perdues_?email_work_card=view-paper](https://www.academia.edu/1383888/...
## ***SEPHARDIC WORLD MEETING - SUNDAY 23RD AUGUST 2020***## ***ADEUS VILA DE BELMONTE: MUSIC IN THE LIVES OF CRYPTO-JEWS IN PORTHIS SUNDAY 23RD AUGUST 2020 ON SEPHARDIC WORLD***## ***ADEUS VILA DE BELMONTE: MUSIC IN THE LIVES OF CRYPTO-JEWS IN PORTUGAL***This week we are doing something out of the ordinary! Dr. Judith R. Cohen is a performer and ethnomusicologist specializing in Jewish folk music. She is perhaps best known for her work with Judeo-Spanish Sephardic songs. She has also spent a lo...
## ***SEPHARDIC WORLD MEETING - SUNDAY 9TH AUGUST 2020***## ***THE NUNES CARVALHO - FROM PORTUGAL TO THE WILD WEST***## Members of the Nunes Carvalho family fled from Portugal to Amsterdam. Later generations settled in London, Jamaica and the United States. The story includes heartbreaking letters from a wife left behind in Portugal, Jews in Jamaica, and the explorer, painter, and early photographer Solomon Nunes Carvalho.Keith and Nancy Atkinson have spent years tracing Nancy's ancestors and wi...
Researching Sephardic DNAMeeting on Zoom - Sunday 12th July 2020 Adam Brown leads the Avotaynu DNA projects, including researching the genetic origins of Western Sephardic men. The project has uncovered families in the eastern Mediterranean and Caribbean with shared ancestry, as well as showing common ancestries of families with different surnames, and proving or disproving that families of the same surname are related.DNA research is still in its infancy, and Adam and colleagues are at the cutt...
In a Zoom meeting organized by Sephardic World, Alain Nedjar will speak about**Livorno Sephardic Marriage Registers**Meeting - Sunday 14th June 2020Livorno, in northern Italy, was a major center of the Sephardic world. This week Alain Nedjar will discuss a new book he has co-authored on the community's marriage registers. We believe this book to be an instant classic. It fills an important gap in the literature. It sets a new standard in Jewish genealogical research and is a beautifully produced...
On Sunday, on the Sephardi Heritage Project, Ton Tielen will talk about the Amsterdam-based Portuguese Jewish bridal society Santa Companhia de Dotar Orphas e Donzellas, known as Dotar. At 405 years it is the oldest still-functioning Jewish charity in The Netherlands, and indeed in the Western Sephardic world. Though established in Amsterdam, its membership was international, and its activities encompassed the whole of the Sephardic world. The core of its archives still exists, and the larger pa...
To me, the history of the jews of Maroc sometimes looks like a black box, we know who got out and who got in, but we do not know much about what happened inside. That is why diplomatic archives in other countries are important. Over a century ago the count Henry de Castries took an interest in precisely these diplomatic archives. He investigated or had others investigate them in a number of countries and had them transcribed, translated (in French), and annotated. He published them in a series o...
Another post from FB Group The Sephardic Diaspora which mentions some Jews from Morocco, merchants, on their way through Lisbon, where they were recorded with their names and the name of the ship that they sailed on."I have been rereading a book by Herman Prins Salomon. On page 126 in a footnote to his “Portrait of a New Christian Fernao Álvares Melo, Paris 1982, Herman Prins Salomon writes:One of the most paradoxical aspects of life under the Inquisition inseventeenth-century Lisbon is the docu...
I promised to post here about Amsterdam sources with regard to Morocco.This is a list of poor Sephardim who went from Amsterdam to North Africa. I posted this a long time ago on FB Group The Sephardic Diaspora. So here goes:"Hi all, I spent some time compiling a list of Portuguese Jews who went from Amsterdam to North Africa and Gibraltar in the period 5445-5488 (1685-1728), with a little help from the Mahamad of Amsterdam – in guilders and stivers. PJC stands for Portuguese Israelite Community ...