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12 March 2023 at the Jewish Museum of Ireland Brazilian researcher Denise Sabino Villanova will talk about contemporary Sephardim and their attachment to their roots and cultural heritage. Going back to the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition, she will analyse how to preserve one’s faith under threat. With a desire to understand the evolution of Sephardic history and improve the ...
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Capital of the Algarve region in southern Portugal, the city of Faro was home to a large Jewish community, expelled in 1497. A number of them continued to live there as conversos. Jews did not resettle “officially” in the city until the 19th century. In the fifteenth century, the time of its peak, Faro was a well-known center of Hebrew printing. In 1481, Samuel Porteira printed ...
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For three centuries, the cellars of tumbledown houses in the old town were home to a hidden Jewish community, that of the conversos who came here from Spain after 1474. Used to hiding their faith in Spain, these “new Christians” continued to practice their old religion in secret when they came to France. Bordeaux’s Jewish community began to emerge from the shadows only in ...
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