Jacob Tirado (born ca. 1540; died in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
1620) was one of the founders of the
Spanish-Portuguese community of Amsterdam.
With several
Marranos he sailed from Portugal in a vessel which was driven out of its course to
Emden in East Friesland. Following the advice of Rabbi
Moses Uri ha-Levi, he continued his travels with his companions to
Amsterdam
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, c. 1593. After his arrival there, he confessed the Jewish faith openly, and afterwards, though advanced in years, underwent the rite of circumcision.
Together with
Jacob Israel Belmonte and
Samuel Pallache
Samuel Pallache (Arabic: صامويل آل بالاتش, ''Shmuel Baylash'', Hebrew: 'שמואל פאלאץ, ''Shmuel Palach'', c. 1550 – February 4, 1616) was a Jewish Moroccan-born merchant, diplomat, and pirate of the Pallache family, who, ...
, Tirado founded the Spanish-Portuguese community of Amsterdam, being its first president.
Having acquired a house on the
Houtgracht, he transformed it into Amsterdam's first synagogue, which was called after him ''Bet Ya'akob'' (Hebrew) or ''Casa de Jacob'' (Ladino), i.e., Beth Jacob, consecrated at the Jewish New Year's festival (September 1597).
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Annually on ''
Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur (; he, יוֹם כִּפּוּר, , , ) is the holiest day in Judaism and Samaritanism. It occurs annually on the 10th of Tishrei, the first month of the Hebrew calendar. Primarily centered on atonement and repentance, the day' ...
'' a special prayer in his behalf is recited as an acknowledgment of his important services to the community. In his old age Tirado traveled to Jerusalem, where he died.
See also
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Sephardic Jews
Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, Djudíos Sefardíes), also ''Sepharadim'' , Modern Hebrew: ''Sfaradim'', Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm, also , ''Ye'hude Sepharad'', lit. "The Jews of Spain", es, Judíos sefardíes (or ), pt, Judeus sefa ...
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Spanish-Portuguese community of Amsterdam
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History of the Jews in the Netherlands
The history of the Jews in the Netherlands began largely in the 16th century when they began to settle in Amsterdam and other cities. It has continued to the present. During the occupation of the Netherlands by Nazi Germany in May 1940, the J ...
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Samuel Pallache
Samuel Pallache (Arabic: صامويل آل بالاتش, ''Shmuel Baylash'', Hebrew: 'שמואל פאלאץ, ''Shmuel Palach'', c. 1550 – February 4, 1616) was a Jewish Moroccan-born merchant, diplomat, and pirate of the Pallache family, who, ...
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Pallache family
References
* The article entitled ''TIRADO, JACOB'' is now available at http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=221&letter=T .
Further reading
* Uri Phoebus Halevi: ''Narração da vinda dos judeos espanhoes a Amsterdam''. Amsterdam, 1711. (new edition: Jacob S. da Silva Rosa, Amsterdam 1933)
* Odette Vlessing: ''New Light on the Earliest History of the Amsterdam Portuguese Jews''. In: Jozeph Michman (ed.): ''Dutch Jewish History''; 3. Jerusalem 1993, pp. 43–75.
* Marc Saperstein: ''Exile in Amsterdam. Saul Levi Morteira's sermons to a congregation of "new Jews"''. Cincinnati 2005, pp. 149–154.
* Robert Cohen: ''"Memoria Para Os Siglos Futuros": Myth and Memory on the Beginnings of the Amsterdam Sephardi Community''. In: ''Jewish History'', 2/1 (1987), pp. 67–72
* Miriam Bodian: ''Hebrews of the Portuguese nation. Conversos and community in early modern Amsterdam''. Bloomington 1997.
* Ludwig Philippson: ''Jakob Tirado. Geschichtlicher Roman aus der zweiten Hälfte des sechszehnten Jahrhunderts''. Leipzig 1867.
External links
The Marranos celebrate Yom Kippur in Amsterdam
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1540 births
1620 deaths