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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Portuguese Jews emigrated to a number of European cities outside Portugal, where they established new Portuguese Jewish communities, including in Hamburg, Antwerp, and the Netherlands, [1] [2] which remained connected culturally and economically, in an international commercial network during the ...
Spanish and Portuguese Jews, also called Western Sephardim, Iberian Jews, or Peninsular Jews, are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardic Jews who are largely descended from Jews who lived as New Christians in the Iberian Peninsula during the few centuries following the forced expulsion of unconverted Jews from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1497.
Portuguese Jews (5 C, 15 P) Portuguese people of Jewish descent (2 C, 8 P) S. Sephardi Jewish culture in Portugal (5 P) Pages in category "Jews and Judaism in Portugal"
20th-century Portuguese Jews (8 P) 21st-century Portuguese Jews (10 P)
This included 137 Sephardic Jews of Portuguese descent from Vichy France in 1943 and 1944. [30] 19 Portuguese Jews from Thessalonika in Axis-occupied Greece were repatriated to Portugal after already having been deported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp [30] after a persistent exchange of notes between Lisbon and Berlin. [33]
The Lisbon Synagogue, formally the Synagogue Shaaré Tikvah, (Portuguese: Sinagoga Portuguesa Shaaré Tikvah; Hebrew: שערי תקווה, lit. 'Gates of Hope') is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 59 Rua Alexandre Herculano, in the civil parish of Santo António, in the municipality of Lisbon, Portugal.
The Synagogue of Castelo de Vide (Portuguese: Sinagoga de Castelo de Vide) is a well-preserved medieval synagogue in Santa Maria da Devesa, Castelo de Vide, in the Alentejo Region of Portugal. Built in the late 14th century, the former synagogue was repurposed in April 2019 as a Jewish museum dedicated to Castelo de Vide's historical Jewish ...
Portuguese Jews fled from mainland Portugal to the Azores to escape the Portuguese Inquisition. In 1818, a number of Moroccan Sephardi Jewish families settled in the Azores. Moroccan Jews became active in local Azorean business, trade, and commerce. These early Moroccan Jewish migrants founded the Sahar Hassamain Synagogue ("Gates of Heaven ...