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Shabua tob, everyone.As many of you know I'm an professional classical musician. I was approached by a well-respected male voice ensemble that would like to program a concert of Western Sephardic liturgical music. My expertise and background are in the Eastern Rite. Do you know of any written modern sources, historical musical collections, or manuscripts that I may point them to?Have a peaceful mo...

Is anyone here familiar with researching Sephardic ancestry in the Caribbean including Barbados and Trinidad in particular? We hit a snag in our research and could use some help from a researcher familiar with how to go about doing this. I was recommended to this group from an outstanding researcher and human being who spent all morning helping me in the tracing the tribe group. This must truly be...

Thought this would be of interest to the group. In contrast to the German Jews wanting to be like Sephardim mentioned in this article, at Shearith Israel we've always built new-classical sanctuaries to emphasize our Western heritage.

Dear friends today I show you an amazing treasure !This is the Ketubba of ISAAK SENIOR (Manuel Texeira) and RAHEL DE MATOS, dated 24.June.1648It was stolen 1942 from the Ets Haim Libary Amsterdam and was brought back 1945. In the year 1990 this Ketubba was offered in an auction (Christie's Amsterdam) and now it's a part of the collection of jewish history in the museum for the history of Hamburg.I...

From the Portuguese Jewish Archives in Amsterdam (City Archives Asterdam 334, PJC 875)Em 27 ditto (Kislev 1722) declaramos nos abayxo irmados em como nos obrigamos a depachar nossos filhos fora desta ciudade entre Pesah e Sebuott proximo aio(?)Isaque de Sola me obligo por mi hijo Aron de SolasMosse Levy Maduro me obrigo por meo filho David Me obrigo por me filho Semuel do Porto (signed: ) Selomo P...

What is your opinion about the use of electricity in Iom Tov? Any S&P sages opinions? What do your Rabbis hold by?

........................The Sephardic Cemetery, Recife 1648....................

This is amongst the first Jews to returna to Portugal after the Inquisition around 1849. He herpes estabilí the Faro Jewish commumity and was one of 3 families who bought the land for the Jewish cemitery in Faro nós a national monument. He was my grandfather's great grandfather.

I have been researching Sephardic family that went to the Ottoman Empire (Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Rhodes, Middle East, Monastir, northern Africa (Egypt to Morocco) since 1997. I now have over 200,000 people collected. A file (SurnameReport 200000.pdf) is available in the Files of this group which lists the major names I have researched. I would be glad to see if your family is included.

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I have a riddle for you: where does a couple go between 1648 and 1655 to get married from the Amsterdam Portuguese community? Hint: they don't show up in the Ondertrouw register for that period in the city, the dowry was provided by the de Pinto family, and wife's family was now conclusively known by at least 4 separate aliases. Oh, and both families were definitely in Amsterdam during this period...

Celebration of Sukot- ushpizin blessing sukkah decoration (style Shivithi) year 1822 from the Chaves family - Portuguese descent (Amsterdam ,Izmir, Israel). Rivka Chaves Zobel

Dear Eliza De Sola Mendes,today I found an image in a jewish archive in Hamburg:left image , down , David Meldola and other preachers of "Israelitischer Tempel-Hamburg"

Dear Bonnie Wagman,today I found this image in a jewish archive in Hamburg:Graziado Ascoli

Dear Adrien Gernsbacher Genet,today I found this picture in a jewish archiv in Hamburg:It shows Rabbi Daniel Cohen D'Azevedo or David Cohen D'Azevedo

Dear friends ! What do you know about the family name SPANIER ?A friend asked me for help, his wife is a descendent of Natan SPANIER (see image). I looked for gravestones in Hamburg and found out that some were burried in ashkenazim tradition but other SPANIER on the second cemetery were burried on the sephardic area. The earliest SPANIER in Hamburg is the name Moses SPANIER born 1550 in Hamburg ...

A rather useful link

I mentioned some time ago how distant family were proud to be of Portuguese descent but not rushing to a synagogue. So this article rang bells, Ana Pancheco is Santa Fes historian and was talking about people claiming Spanish citizenship being the descandants of conversos, it was from some 8 months agoFor some, such as Pacheco, the discovery of her family’s Sephardic roots will not set her off to...

Looking at trees set up by family members I came across the name Birnbaum which in Portuguese is Pereira meaning Peartree was this name popular among fleeing Jews upon arrival to Amsterdam or Hamburg?So far I am getting Jewish results on all DNA Platforms but am having difficulty tracing it back. On Gedmatch my primary shared population is Spanish from Murcia and Estremadura aswell as Portugal and...

In continuation of a discussion started wby Brian Winter, that turned into a discussion about the De Sequeira family, I post this partial genealogy of said family.

Dear friends, I told you that at the moment many graves on the sephardic cemetery Hamburg-Altona are covered with moss and unfortunately it is not possible to read the inscripts and make good pictures.But we have luck! I found more than 2000 (!) pictures dated 1936-2010 from this cemetery. Some are described and many pictures are in high quality so that it was possible to read the inscripts.I need...

Hi everybody, I just joined because after years of thinking that my father's family were all Dutch, recently I began doing further research in order to apply for Portuguese nationality under the Law of right of return. I was surprised to find so many Portuguese names amongst my Dutch ancestors including hundreds of Queridos and Cardosos amongst many others. To date it would appear that at least 15...

Thank you Ton for accepting me as a member of this group . I am in Cape Town, South Africa, and well aquainted with the Sephardic Community here who were from Rhodes Island.

Looking for resources on any unique or paticular minhajim or cuisine of the Caribbean communities.

G'mar chatima tova chaverim ve chaverot !(Postcard from Russia 1910 - Yom Kippur in the Synagogue)