Six hundred Amsterdam Jews, under invitation from…

1642 CE

Six hundred Amsterdam Jews, under invitation from the East India Company, settle in 1642 in the Dutch colony of Pernambuco (Recife), Brazil, administered by the Prince of Nassau from 1637.

Aboab da Fonseca is appointed rabbi.

Most of the European inhabitants of the town are Sephardic Jews from Portugal who had been banned by the Inquisition to this town at the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Mauritsstad > Recife Pernambuco Brazil View →

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Jews View → Inquisition, Portuguese View → Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic) View → Dutch Brazil (New Holland) View →

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Sephardim, Ashkenazim, and Sabbateanism; 1540 to 1683 View → Colonization of the Americas, Dutch View →

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Weapons View → Hides and feathers View → Land View →

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Commerce View → Labor and Service View → Government View → Finance View →

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