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This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the Island of Rhodes. Introductory information by Leon Taranto. See his complete article on Avotaynu 2009: "From the Ottoman Turkish conquest of Rhodes in 1522 until the Holocaust, a vibrant Judeo-Spanish community flourished on this Mediterranean isle. In antiquity, a Romaniote Jewish community lived there. By the 1700s, Rhodes ...
In Dutch, the city of Amsterdam is often called Mokum . > It was given this name by Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe who sought refuge there, starting in the 17th century. =] Rembrandt's Jews Had Rembrandt moved into any other neighborhood of the city, he would have been surrounded by neighbors with such names as de Witt, Graaf, Van den Berg, and Janszoon. As it was, the occupants of the hous...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the city of Smyrna also called İzmir,Turkey There is a separate Geni Project for the Jewish families of Tire. See Jewish Community of Tire,Turkey Many Jewish people from Izmir went to Rhodes. Rabbis of Izmir (Smyrna) prior to 1937 Facebook: Izmir / Smyrna Jewish Genealogy "The Jewish Community of Izmir" Haim F. G...
After the Expulsion of 1492, Spanish-speaking Jews harassed and persecuted by the Inquisition, accepted by Sultan Bayezid II to the Ottoman territories and arrived in waves from the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal). A large community grew in Monastir and made up over ten percent of the city's population in 1900. The local Jewish population referred to themselves as Monastirli. Most Jews o...
Davidic Lineage of Ibn Yahya The Ibn Yahya family were descended from the hereditary heads of the Sanhedrin in Tiberias, thence through the Exilarchs back to King David . Ibn Yahya elite family history is virtually a capsule version of the Sephardic Jews in Spain and Portugal. Treasurers for various kings of Portugal and Spain, authors of biblical commentaries, poets, mathematicians, astrologer...
פרויקט זה מיועד לרכז את כל יוצאי המושבה הרטוב הפרויקט יאחד בתוכו גם משפחות שאינן בקישרי משפחה עם השארזה מקום טוב לשים מסמכים וקישורים לחומר על הרטובבקישור להלן ניתן למצוא סרט על הרטוב וכן הקלטות מפי רפאל בן ארויה [ ]מוזמנים לתרום כראות עיניכם שגיא מצורף קישור לתיקייה משותפת ובה אוסף כתבות הנוגעות בהרטוב:
Madeira ( Ilha da Madeira ) was discovered in 1419 by João Gonçalves Zarco , Tristão Vaz Teixeira , and Bartolomeu Perestrello, three captains in the service of Prince Henry the Navigator . The families of the discoverers began to settle the island about 1420. Later settlers were drawn from the general population of Portugal, together with a dominant class of Genoese merchant families. In the 1...