Saúl Levi Morteira

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• Saul Levi Morteira — (c. 1596, Venice February 10, 1660, Amsterdam) was a Dutch rabbi of Portuguese descent. In a Spanish poem Daniel Levi de Barrios speaks of him as being a native of Germany ( de Alemania natural ). When in 1616 Morteira escorted the body of the… …   Wikipedia

• MORTEIRA, SAUL LEVI — (c. 1596–1660), rabbi and scholar in Amsterdam. Morteira was born in Venice and studied there under leone modena . In 1611 he accompanied the physician Elijah Montalto to Paris, and on the latter s death in 1616 brought his body for burial to… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Morteira, Saul Levi — (c. 1596 1660)    Dutch rabbi and scholar, of Venetian origin. He became Hakham of the Beit Ya akov community in Amsterdam, and founded the Keter Torah Yeshivah there. He was a member of the bet din that excommunicated Benedict Spinoza. His Givat …   Dictionary of Jewish Biography

• Caceres family — Caceres was the name of a Jewish family, members of which lived in Portugal, the Netherlands, England, Mexico, Suriname, the West Indies, and the United States. They came from the city of Cáceres in Spain. Contents 1 Antonio Dias (Diaz) de… …   Wikipedia

• AMSTERDAM — AMSTERDAM, constitutional capital of the netherlands . Ashkenazim until 1795 DEMOGRAPHY AND ECONOMY The beginning The first Ashkenazim arrived in Amsterdam from the end of the 1610s onwards. They left the German countries owing to the Thirty… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto — (ca. 1625–1 October 1697), also known as the Ramaz, was a kabalistic writer and poet. It is generally supposed that his birthplace was Amsterdam, although, like the Amsterdam rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, he probably lived in Venice, the residence of …   Wikipedia

• Jüdische Literatur — Jüdische Literatur, im weitern Sinne das gesamte Schrifttum der Juden vom Abschluß der Bibel bis zur Gegenwart. Sie wurzelt in der hebräischen Literatur, deren Pflege und Weiterbildung sie übernimmt. Zu der überkommenen eignen Gelehrsamkeit tritt …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

• ABOAB DA FONSECA, ISAAC — (1605–1693), Dutch Sephardi rabbi. Aboab was born in Castro Daire, Portugal, of a Marrano family, as Simao da Fonseca, son of Alvaro da Fonseca alias David Aboab. He was brought as a child to St. Jean de Luz in France and then to Amsterdam, where …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• SPINOZA, BARUCH (Bento, Benedictus) DE — (1632–1677), philosopher born in Amsterdam of Portuguese background, who became one of the most important representatives of the rationalist movement in the early modern period. Introduction In the Jewish and National Library in Jerusalem,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• PARDO — PARDO, family which apparently originated in Prado del Rey, Castile, and which flourished during the 16th–18th centuries in the Ottoman Empire, Italy, the Netherlands, England, and America. The more celebrated members of the family are dealt with …   Encyclopedia of Judaism