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סבתא מימה (מינה) וויצמן בבית הבראה ארזה .ובחתונה של אימא תמר וויצמן (אוחנה)
A Rabat, au Maroc, nous avions tous un cadre du portrait du Roi Mohamed V.Il était présent.
מסעוד ויצמן ורעייתו מימה למשפחת וועקנין עלו מאריל נורו לבית שמש. מסעוד ויצמן הוא אחי אביה של פנינה ויצמן קליין שתבדל לחיים ארוכים . ביתו הבכורה היא אסתר בלומנטל ומרדכי ועקנין אחיה של מימה הוא סבו של שמוליק בלמס. מימה ומסעוד היו גם בני דודים. רב תודות לשמוליק על התמונה .
I have just come across something supposedly written in the 17th Centuryl wonder if any of the members of the group know of it..Sephardi Genealogy and HistoryThis blog is about Sephardic Jewish genealogy and history. In 1492 the Jews were expelled from Spain. They went to Portugal, Italy and the Islamic lands around the Mediterranean. The history of this small community is both fascinating and co...
ANOTHER DE SOLA FAMILY MYSTERYThe Jewish Encyclopedia has this to say about an Aaron de Sola:“Son of David de Sola (No. 18); born about the close of the seventeenth century. He was in Portugal as a Marano under an assumed name when his father was tortured by the Inquisition. His position became yet more perilous when two of his brothers, likewise living under assumed names, were ferreted out by th...
Hello All, what can you tell me about the Bevis Marks Synagogue's Dowry Society, founded by Portuguese Jews in 1720?
לו"ז תפילות שבת וט' באב תשע"ובית כנסת "שבת אחים" נוה גן פ"ת"בנה ביתך כבתחילה...."
England's Oldest Jewish Cemetery is Sephardic
England's Oldest Jewish Cemetery is Sephardic
Good article about misconceptions ashkenazim often have about sepharedim:
A FAMILY MYSTERYIn this letter home of April 1821 to his freshly married wife Ribca Meldola, David de Sola, son of Aron de Sola from Amsterdam, freshly appointed Hazan of Bevis Marks, writes very movingly of his visit to his fathers deathbed. He talks of how difficult it is to enter his fathers house not knowing what he will find, and later he writes how his visit had uplifted his fathers spirits....
For everyone who will be in London this weekend!
Thanks for accepting me into the group. I'm researching Alhanati and Sciaky from Larissa, Greece and Modiano, Nahmias and Carasso from Salonika, Greece.
http://forward.com/news/world/346996/turkey-cracks-down-and-an-ancient-messianic-sect-burrows-deep/
What's the current practice in our various communities about reading Job on 9 Ab? The reza book currently in use in both America and England has the whole thing printed, but I recall only a few chapters being read in NY when I was there for 9 Ab a few years ago.
What are the differences between the various S&P communities on the observance of the Nine Days ?
Following the trail of the conversos Salom is coming to Amsterdam!
http://www.galiciapress.es/texto-diario/mostrar/474163/cementerio-portugues-hamburgo
תהי מנוחתו עדן של יחיאל בן ברוך אדרעי לבית ויזמאן אמן ואמן .
Someone in the group, maybe Aron Sterk once asked if I knew any Montesinos in New York. I met Ellis Verdi, Bella Montesinos' grandson, a couple of times at mutual cousins' weddings. I just looked him up and he is a partner in DeVito/Verdi, an advertising agency in NY. His email is: everdi@devitoverdi.com
Born in Salonica in 1896, Albert Levy came from a family deeply involved in Jewish communal life. He appears to have been related to the prominent Levy publishing family in Salonica. where, from 1913-1916, he edited a daily Ladino newspaper called El Liberal. His scrapbooks record Levy’s writings and offer a glimpse into the life and times of this twentieth century Sephardic luminary.
The IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy will be in Seattle, August 7-12. There is an extensive Sephardic program this year, and I will be speaking four times (Genie posted her sessions below in another thread). If you will be attending, come say hello!
'The Harlot's Progress' was a series of six engravings (based on 6 paintings that are now lost) of 1732 that tell the fall of Moll Hackabout. Plate 1 shows her arriving in London and being led astray, plate 2 (below) shows her being kept by a rich Jew. The Jew has come early to breakfast and disturbed Moll with another lover who is sneaking out while Moll causes a distraction by kicking the tea th...
This book "Shefa Tal" of 1612 was sold for 1,800 $US at auction in New York in January of 2016 ........ could it be the copy that 400 years ago belonged to the Rabbi of Vila Velha, Itamaracá and was in the collection of the deceased Yosef Goldman of Brooklyn ?
Hi all. Please come out to the IAJGS Conference in Seattle next week. My talk schedule below. Many will be Live ! Come on in or listen in :)