Spanish and Portuguese Jews
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Spanish and Portuguese Jews, also called Western Sephardim, Iberian Jews, or Peninsular Jews, are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardic Jews who are largely descended from Jews who lived as New Christi
Painting of the Amsterdam Esnoga—considered the mother synagogue by the Spanish and Portuguese Jews—by Emanuel de Witte (ab. 1680).
Burning of Crypto-Jews in Lisbon, Portugal, 1497
Spanish Synagogue
Synagogue of Livorno
Judah P. Benjamin
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Judah Philip Benjamin was a lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Louisiana, a member of the Confederate States Cabinet and, after his escape to Britain at the end of the Am
Spanish and Portuguese Jews
…Jacob De Cordova – founder of the Gleaner Company and later a member of the Texas House of Representatives Judah P. Benjamin – politician and lawyer Samuel Sarphati – Dutch physician and Amsterdam city planner…
Benjamin, c. 1856
Benjamin, c. 1860–1865
The original Confederate Cabinet, 1861. L-R: Judah P. Benjamin, Stephen Mallory, Christopher Memminger, Alexander Stephens, LeRoy Pope Walker, Jefferson Davis, John H. Reagan and Robert Toombs.
Benjamin on the 1864 Confederate $2 banknote.