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  2. History of the Jews in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Jews in Brazil begins during the settlement of Europeans in the new world. Although only baptized Christians were subject to the Inquisition, Jews started settling in Brazil when the Inquisition reached Portugal, in the 16th century. They arrived in Brazil during the period of Dutch rule, setting up in Recife the first ...

  3. Sephardic Jews - Wikipedia

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    For example, the 1654 Jews who arrived in New Amsterdam fled from the colony of Recife, Brazil after the Portuguese seized it from the Dutch. Through most of the 18th century, American synagogues conducted and recorded their business in Portuguese, even if their daily language was English.

  4. Spanish and Portuguese Jews - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish Synagogue (Scola Spagnola) of Venice was originally regarded as the "mother synagogue" for the Spanish and Portuguese community worldwide, as it was among the earliest to be established, and the first prayer book was published there. Later communities, such as in Amsterdam, followed its lead on ritual questions.

  5. Recife - Wikipedia

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    Recife (Brazilian Portuguese: [ʁeˈsifi] ⓘ) is the state capital of Pernambuco, Brazil, on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is the largest urban area within both the North and the Northeast Region of Brazil. It is the largest city in Pernambuco state, and the fourth-largest urban area in all of Brazil; the metro ...

  6. Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue - Wikipedia

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    Kahal Zur Israel was a Jewish synagogue located at Rua do Bom Jesus (Rua dos Judeus) number 197 in Recife, Brazil.It was established in 1636 by Portuguese and Spanish Sephardic Jews that had taken refuge in Dutch Brazil fleeing forced conversion and were joined by New Christians, who possibly helped to build the structure and were already living in the colony.

  7. Gilberto Freyre - Wikipedia

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    Brazil portal. v. t. e. Gilberto de Mello Freyre (March 15, 1900 – July 18, 1987) was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman born in Recife. Considered one of the most important sociologists of the 20th century, his best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala ...

  8. Dutch invasions of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The English privateer James Lancaster seized the richest treasure in the history of Elizabethan English privateering in Recife with Dutch help during the Anglo-Spanish War. [6] Flag of Dutch Brazil . The Capture of Recife , also known as Lancaster's Pernambucan expedition, was an episode in the Anglo-Spanish War that took place in 1595 in the ...

  9. Capture of Recife (1595) - Wikipedia

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    The Capture of Recife also known as James Lancaster's 1595 Expedition or Lancaster's Pernambucan expedition was an English military expedition during the Anglo–Spanish War in which the primary objective was the capture of the town and port of Recife in the Captaincy of Pernambuco in the Portuguese colony of Brazil (then within the Iberian Union with Spain) in April 1595.