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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 ...
The Kadoorie Mekor Haim Synagogue (Portuguese: Sinagoga Kadoorie Mekor Haim), also the Porto Synagogue (Portuguese: Sinagoga do Porto), is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 340 Guerra Junqueiro Street, in the civil parish of Lordelo do Ouro e Massarelos, the municipality of Porto, in the northern region of Portugal.
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.
The Portuguese parliament approved changes to the system for granting nationality to descendants of Sephardic Jews on Friday, Jan.5, 2024.
[1] [2] Though King Manuel I of Portugal ordered the forced conversion or expulsion of Portuguese Jews in 1496, Marranos continued using the synagogue as a religious sanctuary and school until the mid 16th century. [2] The Synagogue of Castelo de Vide is one of two existing preserved medieval synagogues in Portugal. The other is the Synagogue ...
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.
Expulsion of the Jews in 1497, in a 1917 watercolour by Alfredo Roque Gameiro. On 5 December 1496, King Manuel I of Portugal decreed that all Jews must convert to Catholicism or leave the country, in order to satisfy a request by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain during the negotiations of the contract of marriage between himself and their eldest daughter Isabella, Princess of Asturias, as an ...