William Jeuda De Oliveira

In 1443, a Genoese owned ship carrying merchandise for Moorish merchants was pirated in the harbor of Rhodes. It appeared that the ship's owner was in on it, and the Caliph of Ifriqiya and the Sultan of Granada decided to seize the merchandise of the Genoese merchants in their reigns, including the annullment of credits to Jewish debtors.The Jews listed in Granada were:Isac AbocarUsef AbocarAbraam...

Since we're posting pictures of Ferrara cemeteries... This is what's left of the Sephardic cemetery of Ferrara. There was another one, but it's completely gone, the remaining headstones brought to the Italian/Ashkenazi cemetery.

All the recipes I have for albondeques (by various names) are from Italy. Does anyone have family recipes for meatballs in sauce that were likely passed down from a Western Sephardic side of the family?

De BenedettiDe Benedetti is (was) a large and important Piedmontese Jewish family. They lived mainly in Asti and Cherasco, but also in other Piedmontese cities. Until today, a branch of the family (no longer Jewish) is prominent in the Italian financial world, with the Gruppo De Benedetti holding company.A branch of the family moved to Livorno, and another (from there?) to Amsterdam, assimilating ...

Rainy medianos day, good time to make some àpere/prialetes. None came out looking perfect, but who cares as they taste great! Boas festas!

My mahzor for the holiday. The Mendes mahzor from 1791. (Edit: Sorry, it's from **1771**) Used to belong to a H. J. L. Who could this be? Probably a Jessurun Lobo, maybe a Juda Leon?

Maybe it's a good thing I found out about this too late... It's interesting enough for me to have considered canceling my travel plans...

Here's your chance to get the most iconic S&P prayer book ever printed. Bidding starts a bit high for a book not in perfect condition...

Did anyone here come across the Sena family from Amsterdam in their research? A Jan Sabbatai Sena had a gambling house on Vlooienburg in the 1690's, reportedly he was a Sephardic Jew from Rome born in 1654. An Isaac Sena, also from Rome, born in 1652, married Rachel Uziel in 1688.But I can't find this name mentioned in Rome. The closest I get is Di Segni, since the first burial in Amsterdam of the...

Do we have someone here who reads Latin easily? I am looking for a quote that I think is in this book, the last part:https://books.google.de/books?id=miyfqWXC6CsC&hl=de&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=falseIt is mentioned here:"In 1544, Brudo Lusitano, a Portuguese doctor, described how the favourite diet of Marrano refugees was ‘fried fish, sprinkled with flour, dipped in egg and breadcrumbs’."https://www.c...

This is an English-speaking group for people interested in learning about and preserving the Western Sephardic / Spanish and Portuguese tradition, as practiced in various places worldwide including Amsterdam, Livorno, London, Bordeaux, New York. Please keep that goal in mind in your posts and responses.There are a few controversial topics that have been a major distraction in the discussions in th...

I'm trying to gather more info on traditional types of breads among Western Sepharaddim. It appears that in general in most places we adopted the local style of bread, but I wonder if in some communities/families recipes for homemade bread were passed on. Especially for shabbat, bread would also have been made at home.Does anyone here have:-Clearly Western Sephardic bread recipes. -Family recipes ...

The typical Pesah cookies in Amsterdam and Venice are very similar*, and both are know by a word of unknown origin (as far as I know). In Amsterdam they are known as prialetes and in Venice as àpere or àpare. Is there any chance the words share an origin?*small flat cookies made of flour, eggs, and sugar. In Venetian recipes the whole eggs is used, whereas in Amsterdam only the white.

I remember once reading that the Teixeira's in Amsterdam and Hamburg were descendants of an Old Christian who had a giyyur. Is there any truth to this, and are there other examples?

When did "Portuguese" communities in London and North America become "Spanish and Portuguese"?

Very nice page, based in Marseille, but sadly unaware of local Jewish history... 😢Marseille followed the Portuguese rite brought by Jews from Livorno, and also Nice followed rite Portugaise. The administrators of the page are unaware of this, and also of the rite portugais in the Comtat Venaissin communities.

Anyone have Western Sephardic hammin/dafina recipes? In Amsterdam the dish unfortunately was forgotten by Sepharaddim, but in other WS communities like Livorno it was preserved.

The Capriles family from Curaçao. I never really looked into them, just assumed from the "Iberian sounding" name that they were yet another Sephardic family of the Western diaspora with a similar story to others. I did see the name also in the North East of Italy, including one of the Chief Rabbis of Trieste, but I assumed they were one of the many Sephardic families there. Now I found out that th...

I was wondering if anyone here ever saw evidence of a Sephardic (Iberian) family in Italy adopting an Italian toponym as their family name.Boas entradas de sabbá y hanuccá alegre.

I've noticed that "preservation of tradition" can mean very different things to people. For example, some people want to preserve whatever it is they remember from childhood or whatever the common practice is today in their communities, even when it can be demonstrated that the practice was recently imported from a non-S&P source, while others prefer in some cases to restore the things that many g...

I've wondered for a while whether the Italian Ventura family is of Iberian or Italian origin. The name is ambiguous. But based on this, it seems that at least the Ventura family from Nice was of Spanish origin. I don't how much that says, with such a name I imagine there could have easily been several unrelated families.

Anthony P. Joseph mentions that the first Sephardic synagogue in Australia was founded in 1890. Any idea where I can find more info? (Especially where exactly it was, and who those Sepharaddim were. Most Jews at that time there seem to have come from England.)

Just a reminder:

This is surely a mistake?http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/cm/periodical/pageview/7412581?query=%20portugiesisch

Seems like there was a S&P/Ashkenaz hybrid synagogue in Long Branch.