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Question: I've always read and been told that in Western/S&P/European communities, we've never used Ladino/Judezmo/Judeo-Spanish, but rather regular or Spanish and Portuguese.From what little reading on the history I've done, though, it's what we now call Judeo-Spanish that preserves how Spanish was generally spoken in Spain around the time of the expulsion and some time afterward. Doesn't that me...
OK the great Jew Christopher Columbus spawned a whole tribe of Sephardi Ladino-speaking pirates on the lost Jewish tribes of the Americas who cruised the Caribbean flying the sign of the Jolly Magen David and Crossbones taking their revenge on the evil Inquisition in every port of the Spanish Main. The truth is hidden in the works of the crypto-Jews J M Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson and in the...
A truly fascinating article about Moroccan Jewry written for the Spectator Magazine in 1887 covering the 'Spanish'Jews on the coast to the tribes of the interior (of particular interest to me is the Daghatin a warrior tribe who were famously fair as are all my family from Fez)
https://youtu.be/JwFmSb4UaOIThis chant for the kedusha of mincha on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, from the Spanish and Portuguese community of London, is an elaborated version of the lachan for the piyyut 'Achot Ketana'. I first heard Hazzan Eliezer Abinun singing this over 50 years ago. His rendition of the captivating melody line, supported by the choir's spontaneous open fifth harmonies, creat...
ETS HAIM 400 YEARSEts Haim organises a symposium on 24th november in honour of its birthday.
Does anyone know where I may be able to find more information on the last name Campos, I have been reading that many of them were Jewish.
CARTON 4 Another map of Beth Haim by D.H. de Castro. Here are an overall image and 3 partial images of that map, plus the map that shows how the 31 maps by DHdeC are to be integrated. The red coloured graves were of special interest to Henriques de Castro. Maybe Julian Land can tell us something about David Baruch de Lousada and his second wife (to the upper right of the Carton) and about Luna Bar...
Going to submit by DNA swabs to FAMILY TREE DNA later today or tomorrow. I do not expect any major surprises but an eager to see what they say . . .
British regulations for Privateers in the 17th. Century ....... whether these rules were adhered to, or not, is another matter !
Thanks for accepting my membership. A few years ago I tested at 23andme, then National Geographic Geno 2.0. I subsequently began using the tools at gedmatch. I the tested at FTDNA, did Y-37 DNA -> Y-111. Last month I did the Big-Y. I've also did full mtDNA. Although I have a small percentage of Ashkenazi /Levant = 13%, using the gedmatch calculators, my middle eastern (Levant?) Varies from 0.5 -...
CARTON 3, by David Henriques de Castro.As David Henriques de Castro used the word Carton for his maps, I will use that word for the heading. I hope that will make it easier to find them again, later, when this Facebookpost will have sunk into oblivion. The upper half of several of the graves that were partly cut off on Map 2, are represented here. To get a picture of the whole grave, we should joi...
On exhibit until February!
CARTON 2From the collection of maps produced by David Henriques de Castro of Beth Haim, the cemetery of the Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam, I present here Map 2. Because the overall image of Map 2 is a bit vague, I also include images of the left, middle and right side of the map. The last image provides a view of where to locate map 2 on the oldest burial field of Beth Haim. This post may be shared...
I'd previously never heard about Moses Ezekiel though I always had a thing for the phrase "victrix causa diis placuit sed victa Catoni." I don't subscribe to his sentiments, but it's very interesting. (And yes there is a Western Sephardic connection.)http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/anderson-address.htm
Anyone planning to see this exhibit?
Years ago, I read that Jews in and around Pamplona had unique minhagim. I can't find the source. Is there a compilation of pre-Expulsion Spanish minhagim?
בתאריך 30 באוקטובר ימלאו 11 חודשים לפטירתה של המנוחה רעייתו של לוי בן אליעזר ויזמאן . בערב יום ראשון תתקיים בסמוך לבית כנסת ליד מלון לאונרדו פלאזה בעיר אשדוד תפילה לזכרה . בתמונה מימין המנוחה . באמצע בנה שיבדל לחיים ארוכים אליעזר ויצמן . ומשמאל בעלה לוי ויצמן שיבדל לחיים ארוכים .
mariage marocain.
He kind of ruined it by adding "Spinoza's Rabbi". Afraid he wasn't going to find any buyers, so he tried to attract some Spinozists?
I've been informed that there's controversy in this group when it comes to the notion of Inquisition-era "Jewish pirates", so I share this with you with the following thought:In researching "Jewish pirate" stuff for my film on the subject, I've encountered quite a lot of anti-Semitic writing. Regardless of whether or not Jews became pirates during the Inquisition, anti-Semites have claimed that na...
http://www.enlacejudio.com/2016/10/27/manuscrito-del-judio-novohispano-luis-carvajal-sera-exhibido-en-ny/
CARTON 1David Henriques de Castro, whom I introduced in earlier posts, described more than 6000 gravestones that he dug up in Beth Haim, cemetery of the Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam, situated in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel. These 6000 graves can be found in the oldest field (“Oudste Afdeeling”), the field “Het Bosch” and the field “Rodeamentoshuis”. Most of the graves that Henriques de Castro dug up,...
ça nous rappelle des souvenirs.Le pain de sucre pèse 2 kg et se casse au moyen d’un petit marteau en cuivre ou en bronze.