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There is a Jewish cemetery on Terceira that lists all the Jewish people who are
buried there. Some are still Jewish. My brother's DNA had a match with a man
in Puerto Rico. The man said his cousin was sure that they were Jewish at one
time (he was Christian). I was able to tell him that way-back-then "we" were
Jewish. His cousin was happy to know that his hunch was true, for what it
matters.
- Shirl -
This subject continues to pluck on very sensitive strings. The historical
documentation does not support a significant number of avowed (openly
practicing, suspected of practicing, or known) Jews in the settlement or
subsequent population of the Azores. You can look at all the historical
research all you want, and you will not find evidence for much of a presence of
Jews in any significant number in the Azores. That being said, that does not
mean that there were not Jews who were cryptic, i.e. secret Jews, who did not
avow or practice their faith openly. We'll never know how many of those there
might have been.
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