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3 unusual facts about Spanish and Portuguese Jews


Abraham Lopes Cardozo

Abraham Lopes Cardozo (1914–2006) was hazzan of Congregation Shearith Israel, the historic Spanish and Portuguese synagogue in New York City.

Alan Mocatta

Sir Alan Abraham Mocatta (27 June 1907 – 1 November 1990) was an English judge, an expert on restrictive practices and a leader of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Britain.

Henriette Herz

She was the daughter of a physician, descended from a Portuguese Jewish family of Hamburg, Benjamin de Lemos (1711–1789) and Esther (1742–1817), née Charleville.


Charles Kensington Salaman

Salaman adapted "He that Shall Endure to the End" from Mendelssohn's Elijah as a setting for Psalm 93 (Adonai Malakh), sung on most Friday nights in the sabbath eve service of the London Spanish & Portuguese Jewish community.

Michael Friedländer

His son-in-law was Moses Gaster (1856–1939), the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, London, and a Hebrew linguist.


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