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On 12 Sebat 5505 Moses de Abraham Pereira donated a Yad Hand, or Tora pointer to the Portuguese Jewish Community. The hand was made of gilded copper. The gift states that the Yad was to be used on Sabat nahamu, os dois dias de Rosasana, Kipur, Simha Tora, Sabath Beresit, Sabath besalah, e o sabath seguinte, The gift was duly recorded. City Archives Amsterdam, Portuguese Jewish Community, 164, page...
Amazing, I found a Ladino music (internet) radio channel.
My husband.David Israel, the son of parents from Rhodes and Turkey is in need of a bone marrow match. If you are between 18-44 or know someone who is, you could save a life. All it takes is a swab and a specialized blood donation. Please post and share. Thank you SO much! https://www.facebook.com/btmrefusetolose/
A long-lost culture, the Sephardi of Baghdad -- let us never forget their story.
The latest from Rabbi Angel - https://www.jewishideas.org/rabbi-marc-d-angel/rabbi-dr-david-de-sola-pool-sephardic-visionary-and-activist
The New Mexico History Museum (Santa Fe) will hold a free symposium on Friday and Saturday, 9-10 September 2016 on the Fractured Faiths exhibit. Speakers include historians, anthropologists, genealogists, DNA, artists, musicians, etc. For more info, go to nmhistorymuseum.org. Here is the flyer:
Monique R. Balbuena, Homeless Tongues: Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic Diaspora.This book examines a group of multicultural Jewish poets to address the issue of multilingualism within a context of minor languages and literatures, nationalism, and diaspora. It introduces three writers working in minor or threatened languages who challenge the usual consensus of Jewish literature: Algerian Sad...
I am sure you all get the emails but if not it makes fascinating reading..the fact that the language was so alive,
Before embarking on the SEPHARDIC quest one question must be answered and the answer accepted Sephardic means from Spain.If this be the case then are all Jews who at one time or another lived in Spain deemed Sephardic no matter the dna?Or only the ones who speak Ladino ?Many Sephardim migrated to Holland,Germany,Russia etc etc.In doing so surely they married Ashkenazi jews.My haplogroup jm-172 is ...
Does anyone have an e-mail address for Marius Heemstra? Or, alternatively, if anyone is connected to him on Facebook, can add him to this group?
Wat ik mij al heel lang afvraag , Is er iemand die weet of er afbeeldingen bestaan van Salomon Molcho leefde in 1530 en is mijn voor vader. Ik weet dat hij griffier was aan het hof van Lissabon aanwezig was bij het huwelijk van Karel de Vijfde en Anna Bolijn zi mantel en wimpel in het museum in Praag zijn De mantel die hij gedragen heeft op de reis naar Karel de Vijfde maar een afbeelding heb ik h...
The Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam kept meticulous track of their sepher tora's. Moses de Daniel Pinto asked in the month of Sivan in 1695 (1735) to be given the sepher tora that his grandfather Moses de Daniel Pinto had deposited with the Community. His sister Ester de Daniel Pinto consented in this. The sepher tora is then given to Moses de Daniel Pinto on condition that after his death, his sons ...
Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, The Inquisition and New World Identities By Marcia FineRecently I visited Santa Fe, New Mexico for a conference. To my delight there was an exhibit at the New Mexico History Museum on a subject that I have written about and continue to research—the migration of Jews known as conversos or hidden ones fleeing the Mexican Inquisition north to what is today new Mexi...
This may interest people. Please note that there is no residency requirement and people outside the U.S. are welcome to apply.===================================The HBI (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) is now accepting proposals for the 2016 cycle of Research Awards to support interdisciplinary research on topics concerning Jewish gender studies. Scholars, activists, filmmakers, writers, and artist...
Lovely story about Dutch cigar makers moving to London
Last week at the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) meeting in Seattle WA, I gave a presentation on the Western Sephardim and my Belinfante ancestry. You can see the slide deck at
In 1833, slavery was abolished in the British Empire, and slave-owners in the British Caribbean colonies were compensated financially for the loss of their property. University College London has a project to document the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership. There is a searchable database at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/search/ . Sad to say that there are several Portuguese names listed (including ...
JODEN SAVANNE - JEWISH SAVANNAH - SURINAM This 17th century settlement on the Surinam River was created in large part by Sephardim from Brazil. There is a possibility that some of Itamaracá's Jewish Congregation moved here via Cayenne in 1645 when the Insurreção Pernambucana erupted.
Some might find this of interest. It's about my first year in London and about our efforts to perpetuate and promote Bevis Marks and the S&P Minhag. It's been a true privilege!
Cesar Machado e Carmen Nogueira who happen to be Pedro Arruda cousins received today the Certificate by the Lisbon Community attesting they are descendants of the conversos from Portugal who went to Brazil. Cesar undertook the job of investigating his family past which took eight years. They plan to move to Portugal in two years and to do an orthodox conversion to Judaism. Mazal tov!
Many thanks, Ton.By the way, I am one of the original 4 Cousins mentioned in www.barrow-lousada.org - with all credit to Julian Land for his wonderful effort to put our family story together - and live in Johannesburg, South Africa. My mother was a daughter of Benjamin Wingate Barrow who settled in Cape Town. The name Wingate is a reference to the related Wingate family of Orde Wingate ("Hayedid"...
Hi Ton, have you by come across a book by Miriam Bodiam 'Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation' I understand its about the Dtch community and well you are the expert and your opinion respected..