Da Costa, Isaac. Noble Families Among the Sephardic Jews. With: Brewster, Bertram. Some Account of the Capadose Family (Including Their Conversion to Christianity). And: Roth, Cecil. An Excursus on Their Jewish History

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Hammer price: $250

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author

(SEPHARDICA)

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Humphrey Milford

Place

London

Publication

1936

Description

FIRST EDITION. With 44 illustrated plates

summary

The Capadoses were a Portuguese Marrano family, originally from Oporto, who in the mid-17th century emerge in Amsterdam as pillars of the Jewish community. There ensue decades of Sephardic grandees, some of whom make their mark in the world of the Talmudic academy, others in the Dutch East India Company and the colonization of the New World

pp. 6, (4), 219 + 44 plates. Original boards. Sm. folio

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