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Some prayer books from the Western Sephardic tradition that might be of interest to some members here....
My great-grandfather Isaac Reby didn't make Raki but he was reputed to down at least 6-7 glasses of it for dinner!
Join me in NY for my talk at AJHS Sept. 20th!
Une nouvelle vie s’offre désormais à ce monument historique resté à l’abandon depuis sa fermeture en 1999 et dont les travaux de réhabilitation ont été entamés en juin.
Como pode apreciar os Holandeses començavam evacuando Brasil desde mayo 1644 por falta de comida, pesar que a Insurreição Pernambucana esta considerado de começar em mayo do ano seguinte . RESOLUTION to send Company servants from Brazil to New Netherland "Resolution drawn up this 18th of May 1644 at Fort Amsterdam on Curaçao. Whereas about 450 souls from the Marnahon[1] (all Company’s servants) ca...
Enigma David Valle Saldaña, [Amsterdam], 1734. [EH 48 E 09]Riddle and poems by David Valle Saldaña for the wedding of Aaron de Pinto.
Ton, Dutch Genealagist was suprised when I made a general comment about most people here in the UK not being able to go back very far in their ancestry. here is her reply--- my question to you is are the records in Holland really that good''I don’t understand your remark that few people can go back beyond four generations. I have traced most of my lines back ten to twelve generations. For the tent...
This publication "The Samaritans" is now digitallty available thanks to the University Library of the Goethe University in Franfurt. Written by Moses Gaster (1856-1939) born Romania, emigrated to England, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community of London, of which he wrote a history.. Are the Samaritans a Jewish or a non-Jewish sect? is the central question that Gaster tries to answer...
Another post on Surinam from Laura.
Thank you Laura Arnold Leibman for permission to repost this on The Sephardic Diaspora. Enjoy!
Does anyone know of any research done regarding the size of the 'western sephardi' community thks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uR7Xt_8eGQ
It is an exemple of the destiny of some jewish manuscript in Portugal after the Conversion/Expulsion and during the Inquisition :
This is obviously not one of 'my' Pintos since there appears to have been an inheritance, but incase someone here is investigating Da Costa, Pinto of De Jong: I accidentally stumbled on this advert concerning those names
NONSENSE FROM GENI. COM 1Geni. com is a genealogical website based on working together at the same genealogies. From time to time I checked some of the Sephardic genealogies with Amsterdam ties. I reported my findings from time to time on Facebookgroup Jewish Genealogical Portal, a very succesful and informative Facebookgroup, run by E. Randol Schoenberg , I find many of these genealogies, perhaps...
Hi guys, I'm desperately trying to find information about the Bension family of Salonika. I found out from the online surname index of this book, "Les juifs de Salonique 1492-1943" by Elie Carasso, that this family is mentioned numerous times. Does anyone have this book on pdf? Thanks.
Richard Cumberland (1732-1811) was a philosemitic English dramatist and writer whose plays 'The Jew' (1794) and 'The Jew of Mogadore' (A light opera, 1808) unusally for the time has sympathetic Jewish heros. Cumberland spent some time in Spain and Portugal, then rarely visited by the English, and his tale of 'Nicolas Pedrosa' may have been inspired by stories he heard there of crypto-Jews. It was...
זמני כניסת שבת להצלחת האיש אשר בן סולנג' - פרשת עקב, זמני כניסת השבת, יציאת השבת, מועדי הדלקת נרות, בארבע ערים בארץ - תל אביב, ירושלים, חיפה ובאר שבע. מאתר דרכי אבותינו מן המערב האתר של יהדות מרוקו וצפון אפריקה -לכניסה לאתר יש ללחוץ על הקישור http://www.morocco-israel.com/שבת שלום
Israel will have museum dedicated to the legacy of the Jews of Spain and Portugal.https://www.facebook.com/133625896667318/photos/a.184508688245705.48573.133625896667318/1344350205594875/?type=3&theater
Il existe un Jardin Marocain, à La-Chapelle-des-Fougeretz en France.Ici, dépaysement garanti !Inauguré en présence du consul du Maroc, ce jardin marocain est un lieu hors du temps. « On se croirait à Marrakech », disent les promeneurs.Réalisés par trois artisans venus de Fez, 52 mètres carrés de mosaïque rouge, bleu, verte et blanche captivent le regard et suscitent l'admiration.Mais il y a aussi ...
I would like to know if someone of the members of this group have Jewish ancestors or New Christians , the Castelo de Vide region ( Portalegre - Portugal ).