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The Surprising Origins of the Coryell Family of Colonial New Jersey

Filed Under Collaboration, DNA Studies, New World, Portugal By Lea Coryell, Michael Waas and Adam Brown on January 15, 2023

[The following article is reprinted by permission of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. The article originally appeared in the Winter 2023 edition of AMERICAN ANCESTORS on pages 27-31. For more information about AMERICAN ANCESTORS magazine and the New England […]

London’s Portuguese Jewish Community

Filed Under Mediterranean, Portugal By Edgar Samuel on March 22, 2020

When the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, half went to Turkey, Morocco and Italy and half moved to Portugal.1 By 1495, the Jewish population of Portugal had risen from three thousand to some thirty-five thousand in a total […]

Genealogy and the Settlement of Jews in Brazil

Filed Under New World, Portugal, Western Sephardim By Israel Blajberg on March 22, 2020

According to its census, Brazil, with 123 million Roman Catholics, is the largest Catholic nation in the world. If one considers its DNA legacy, however, we find that many white Brazilians descend from Portuguese Jews and New Christians who arrived […]

Spanish-Jewish `Nobility’ of Aleppo, Syria

Filed Under España, Mediterranean, Portugal, Syria سوريا, Uncategorized By Anne de Sola-Cardoza on August 31, 2016

As recently as 1992, more than 4,000 Jews were being held against their will in Syria, unable to leave and kept under watch, branded as “Mussawi,” followers of Moses. At that time, 50,000 Jews from Syria lived in Brooklyn’s Flatbush […]

Launching the Converso Genealogy Project: Tracking the Diaspora of the New Christians

Filed Under Crypto-Jews, España, Indexing Projects, Mediterranean, Portugal, Uncategorized, Western Sephardim By Genie Milgrom on August 20, 2016

I was born into a Roman Catholic family in Havana, Cuba, but from a young age, I felt Jewish and inexplicably was drawn to all things Jewish. After converting to Orthodox Judaism at age 34, I found clues along my […]

Announcing “A Nação Hebrea: A Relational Prosopographic Database of the Portuguese Jewish Nation 1500-1800

Filed Under Academia, Crypto-Jews, España, Mediterranean, Portugal, Western Sephardim By Michael Waas on August 18, 2016

In today’s world, interest in Sephardic Jewry is greater than ever before, particularly with the recent laws in Portugal and Spain enacting the right for descendants of Iberian Jews to reclaim nationality that had been revoked by the Expulsion. The […]

Jewish Families and the Habsburg Tobacco Monopoly

Filed Under Academia, Austria-Czech-Slovak, Portugal By Louise Hecht on April 22, 2015

Tobacco was unknown in Europe before the discovery of America. However, unlike other imports from the Americas that enriched European cuisine and coffers, European society did not uniformly embrace tobacco. At first welcomed as a miracle drug and cherished as a […]

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