Posts by William Jeuda De Oliveira
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It remains a mystery to me who this Abraham (de Mose Hai/Vita) Camis da Fonseca was... Anyone have a clue?
This is a fantastic document, basically a very detailed seder hazzanut of the Hamburg esnoga. It's in the public domain, but unfortunately there is no downloadable pdf, so I hope they keep it online. This should be studied.https://www.nli.org.il/he/manuscripts/NNL_YBZ990001157460205171/NLI#$FL16535416
I have to say that I am quite annoyed that the institute responsible for Jewish history and culture in Amsterdam publishes this painting and talks about the church, while failing to mention that the old Portuguese synagogue is right in the middle of it.
# I don't think I had seen this online yet:Recueil des chants hébraique anciens et modernes du rite sefardi, dit portugais en usage dans la communauté de Bordeaux
I created an Italian language group about our rite in Italy, as an experiment. If you speak Italian and have some connection to or interest in Italian S&P, please join.https://www.facebook.com/groups/1427125868262600
Anyone familiar with this book and/or the author? He has also written a book about the Jews of Panama. I'm just wondering if there is any useful genealogical information in it.
Does anyone have more information about Daniel Franco alias Ferdinando (Fernando?) Gomez (Gomes?), who was burned at the stake in Evora in 1608? He had been living openly as a Jew in Livorno, Florence, and Venice before that. Roth says he was also in Salonica? Is everything we know of him in the Inquitistion records? If so, where can the entire text(s) be found?
With deep sorrow I inform the group that one of our founding members, Olve Utne, passed away last night.He was an amazing human being, friend, and fellow researcher. He did a lot of work researching those Sepharadim who moved north of Hamburg, and many other subjects. He was one of the main people trying to keep the Jewish community of Trondheim alive, and this way many S&P melodies could be heard...
May be of interest to some here that there are quite a number of Delmontes buried in Gothenburg. I know it was a family of tobacco traders who lived here at least as early as the beginning of the 19th century, but I don't know how they got here. I haven't seen the name in Marstrand or Copenhagen, the route most Sephardic Jews took to Sweden.
Casa dos rodeamentos in Livorno
When searching for the Jewish cemetery of Ancona, most results will point you toward the old Cardeto cemetery. Which, despite all the broken headstones, is very impressive, although in recent years not very well maintained. It is used as a picknick place by locals.The more modern Jewish cemetery is part of the public Tavernelle cemetery. Parts of it are also very badly maintained, some family tomb...
For the most part of its history, the Siena synagogue was of the Italian rite. But since the 70's it is "one of ours". ;) In the 17th century, there was a small group of Portuguese Jews who had their own private synagogue outside of the ghetto. The local Italian Jews made sure they were denied the right to open an official synagogue inside the ghetto, and personally I can see irony in the fact tha...
La Spezia, small cemetery for a small community existing in the city since the late 1800's. Most families came from Livorno. I photographed all stones in the pre-1960 section, then my battery was dead... Some are difficult to read, a few I wasn't able to decipher at all.
One of the less known Western Sephardic communities/synagogues: La Spezia, Italy.It was founded by the Livornese merchants who came to live in the city in the late 1800's. This synagogue was inaugurated in 1946, the previous one was destroyed during the war. It is very small, situated in an apartment building, and though it won't win a prize for most beautiful synagogue in Italy, I find it strange...
Does anyone here have a family tree of the Danish and Swedish Henriques family? I have a hard time connecting everyone, especially the branch that goes by Valentin. The latter aren't even mentioned in this article, I suspect that they are descendants of Moses Abraham Nathan's sister, but I am not sure.
I found mention of silk telayot in Amsterdam in 1689. Unfortunately the context is that some were stolen from the synagogue together with other items.It is explicitly stated that they are worn over the hat, btw :)
I'm making a last effort to get to the bottom of the stories of a Portuguese Jewish presence in Nijkerk before the Italiaander family came in 1709.-It seems clear that at least one Portuguese merchant was involved in the tobacco trade in Nijkerk in the 1630's, but nothing tells us that he lived there. He could have lived in Amsterdam, or even in Amersfoort where some years later there was a small ...
About the Italian Almansi/Almanzi family. It is often claimed to be related to the Roman Delli Mansi family, which is doubtful since the first member of the family I am finding is described as "hebrus hispaniensis". So likely the name comes from the Spanish city of Almanza. This individual lived in Scandiano in the second half of the 17th c. But how did he get there? It isn't very likely that they...
Does anyone here have access to **The Jewish Community of Salonica** from the Fifteenth to the Sixteenth Century by Joseph Hacker?I am interested if he explains his reason for transliterating the Portuguese name שמסולו/שמסולי as "Shamsolo". In other places I have seen "Shamsulai" (really "Schamsulai" - the source is German). So if you have more information about that family name, I'd be grateful.
Several families of Sephardic origin played an important role in this community.