18 December 2018 à 08:23
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 the name is actually a toponym from Udine, originally Caprileis, they were already there in the early 15th century, likely of Ashkenazi origin, and that the first Capriles in Curaçao was born in Naples in 1723! How he got all the way to Naples, where Jews weren't even allowed to settle at that time, and from there to Curaçao is still a mystery to me...
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