History of the Jews in the Azores information

The history of the Jews in the Azores dates back to the original Portuguese settlement of the Azores in the 15th century. The community is small, but...

 51–70. "Azores" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. Azores Regional Government (in Portuguese) Wikimedia Atlas of the Azores Azores at Wikipedia's...

The history of the Jews in Madeira spans the entire length of the history of Madeira itself. The history of Madeira begins with the discovery of the islands...

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...

The history of the Jews in Portugal reaches back over two thousand years and is directly related to Sephardi history, a Jewish ethnic division that represents...

Revolution of Porto (1820), attracted Jews to the Azores. Jews were accepted at the time, in contrast to the persecution by the Inquisition in previous...

Ets Haim in Angra do Heroísmo. Jewish Cemetery of Funchal History of the Jews in the Azores "Jewish Cemetery, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores | Archive...

island in the Central Group of the Portuguese Azores. The landscape features an eponymous volcano, Ponta do Pico, which is the highest mountain in Portugal...

cumin, cinnamon and nutmeg are used in meat, fish or multiple savoury dishes from Continental Portugal, the Azores and Madeira islands. Cinnamon, vanilla...

give the United States permission to establish a military base in Terceira Island in the Azores and thus its status changed to non-belligerent in favour...

island in the Azores archipelago, about a third of the way across the North Atlantic Ocean at a similar latitude to Portugal's capital Lisbon, and the island...

Now it governs in coalition with the Popular Party. History of the Azores Funchal history and timeline Ann Christys, Vikings in the South (London: Bloomsbury...

Afrontamento. p. 12. ISBN 978-972-36-0489-4. James H. Guill (1900). A history of the Azores Islands. Vol. 5. Golden Shield Publications, Golden Shield International...

In the Azores, the Islands Armada protected the ships en route to Lisbon. In 1534, Gujarat faced attack from the Mughals and the Rajput states of Chitor...

Diplomacy and the Jews During the Holocaust, 1939–1943. New York: Ktav Pub. House. ISBN 978-0-87068-701-3. Nichols, Fiona (2006). Rome and the Vatican. London:...

and the references to the Sargasso Sea (also called at the time 'Mar da Baga'), to the west of the Azores, in 1436, reveals the western extent of the return...

originally Spanish Jews who had left Spain for Portugal, when Spain forced Jews to convert to Christianity or leave. The number of these victims ( between...

Brito Mendes and the well known case of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, who alone helped 34,000 Jews escaping Nazi violence. Portuguese-Jews nowadays Over 500...

led to the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews in 1944. The Luftwaffe frequently bombed non-military targets, the Oberkommando...

the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but continued to practice Judaism in secrecy or were suspected of it, referred to as Crypto-Jews. "Crypto-Jew"...

2% of the population follow non-Christian religions and the percentage of the non-religious population varies between around 6% in the Azores and Madeira...

an influx of Ashkenazim, Jews from Central and Eastern Europe. Jews often fled the pogroms in those areas. The first Ashkenazis who arrived in Amsterdam...

become the center of whaling in America. When whalers were out at sea, they would frequently stop in the Azores to recruit crew members for help. At the end...

from the Azores, among them Dias Cerqueira, a farmer. With the discovery of the Americas, many of these ventured into the “new world”. Being one of those...

Aragonese rule, and an estimated 37,000 to 100,000 Jews left. In 1497, King Manuel I of Portugal forced all Jews in his kingdom to convert or leave. That same...

nearby island of Brava. From the end of the 18th century, whaling ships from North America started hunting whales around the Azores and the Cape Verde Islands...

the Portuguese in 1420. Between 1427 and 1431, most of the Azores were discovered and these uninhabited islands were colonized by the Portuguese in 1445...

diaspora. Beyond the Azores, the Cult of the Holy Spirit is alive in parts of Brazil (where it was established three centuries ago) and pockets of Portuguese...

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