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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 surge of Israeli applicants began after Portugal passed its “law of return” in 2015, allowing the descendants of Portuguese Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Portugal in the 16th ...
The synagogue's congregation was openly active only until 1496, when King Manuel I of Portugal ordered the forced conversion or expulsion of Portuguese Jews. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The building may have been abandoned until 1516, when a private individual purchased it intending to convert it to Tomar's prison.
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.
Benarús was actively involved in communal affairs and held the honorary presidency of Lisbon's Jewish community. Benarús played a significant role in assisting Jewish refugees during his lifetime. He was involved in the establishment and operation of the "Portuguese Commission for Assistance to Refugee-Jews in Portugal" (COMASSIS).
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 Avner Cohen Casa Chabad (Avner Cohen Chabad House) is a Jewish community centre situated in Cascais in the Lisbon District of Portugal. It includes a library that places special emphasis on works about the Torah, either those written by Portuguese Jewish scholars or printed in Portugal in the late 15th century.
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"