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• 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

• 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

• Saúl Levi Morteira — Este artículo o sección necesita referencias que aparezcan en una publicación acreditada, como revistas especializadas, monografías, prensa diaria o páginas de Internet fidedignas. Puedes añadirlas así o avisar …   Wikipedia Español

• 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

• 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

• 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

• ANDRADE, VELOSINO JACOB DE — (1639–1712), physician and philosophical author. Andrade was born in Pernambuco, Brazil, then under Dutch rule, the son of Portuguese parents who fled there when the Inquisition persecuted marranos . After the Portuguese recapture of Pernambuco… …   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

• Spanish and Portuguese Jews — are a distinctive sub group of Sephardim who have their main ethnic origins within the crypto Jewish communities of the Iberian peninsula and who shaped communities mainly in Western Europe and the Americas from the late 16th century on. These… …   Wikipedia