Emmanuel,
Thank you for the information on this book. This is a topic of particular
interest to me that I have been studying and reading about for several years.
The first time I became aware that there were people of Portuguese descend who
had Jewish roots was when I read a book titled " The Cross and the Pear Tree:
A Sephardic Journey " by Victor Perera. In that book I heard the story of the
journey of the Spanish and Portuguese Perera's/Pereira's.
I had been aware for many years that there were people of Spanish ancestry
who had Jewish roots like St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross but not
of Portuguese ancestry. I grew up in Newport,R.I. and in that city is a
synagogue known as Touro Synagogue build by Jews who had come from Spain in the
Colonial Age but I had no idea some were Portuguese.
Later I read a book called "The Grandees" by Stephen Birmingham about the
early American Sephardic Jewish Families.In that book he gives the genealogical
chart of those families written about and tells their story.
Finally I came across a book titled "The Return to Judaism " Descendants
from the Inquisition Discovering Their Jewish Roots by Sandra Cumings Malamed.
I found this book particularly helpful in the interviews she did in chapter
5 with some people of Azorean Portuguese descent,some Catholic,who had familiar
Portuguese surnames like my own ancestors like Pereira and Silva. In chapter 8
she list the surnames of Spanish and Portuguese Marranos and their descendants.
The lists are of known Jewish individuals and are presented as a possible guide
to one's own heritage wherever one's own Marrano ancestors may have lived.She
gives the possible spelling of those name which might differ depending on the
country in which they resided. In chapter 7 she gives a partial list of
Sephardic Communities and Synagogues Worldwide.I think this is a very good book
to read for those interested in their possible Sephardic roots. All of these
books used or newcan be found on Amazon.
Thanks again for your post. George Michael ( Pereira ) Medeiros Jr.
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On Feb 26, 2016, at 9:50 PM, emmanuel lopes <emmanuelo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Dicionário Sefardi de Sobrenomes" (Dictionary of Sephardic surnames)
> In English and Portuguese - authored by Guilherme Faiguenboim, Paulo
> Valadares and Anna Rosa Campagnano - published by Fraiha Publishing House,
> Sao Paulo, Brazil, 528 pp, about $47.
>
> "This superb bilingual addition to the select library of essential books for
> Sephardic Genealogy has 528 pages divided into several sections. The first
> section, dealing with a brief Sephardic history and explanations of Sephardic
> onomastics is printed on 150 pages of glossy paper, beautifully illustrated
> and reminiscent of an "art book". The right hand page is in Portuguese and
> the left hand in English, which - though translated by someone for whom
> English is obviously not a first language - is quite enjoyable and
> informative.
>
> The remainder of the book, printed in non-glossy paper, consists of the
> dictionary of 17,000 Sephardic surnames. For this, the authors modeled
> themselves on Beider's Surnames of the Russian Empire, albeit with a few
> modifications necessitated by dealing with surnames written in a variety of
> alphabets and languages (instead of just Cyrillic), and covering a period of
> 6 centuries and 335 sources instead of the much narrower period and sources
> used by Beider. The dictionary section presents the surname, some spelling
> variants, geographical locations, type (patronymic, descriptive, etc.),
> meaning of, and sources where found. ....
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