Sefarad Reborn! (1910-1918)

Maps by Omniatlas:

Elvira de Azevedo Mea and Inacio Steinhardt
“The Contributions of Captain Barros Basto, ‘Apostle of the Marranos’”
Shofar, Vol. 18, No. 1
[15] p. 71

Henry Abramson
“Who was Meyer Kayserling? Historian of Spanish and Portuguese Jewry”
[7]

Cardozo de Bethencourt
“The Jews of Portugal from 1773 to 1902”
Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 15, No. 2
[2] p. 252
[3] p. 253
[4] p. 253-254
[5] p. 265
[6] p. 266

Parliament of Portugal
Constitution of 21 August 1911
[8]

R.A.H. Robinson
“The Religious Question and the Catholic Revival in Portugal, 1900-30”
Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 12, No. 2
[16] p. 357

Samuel Schwarz
“The Crypto-Jews of Portugal”
Shofar, Vol. 18, No. 1
[9] p. 42-43
[10] p. 44
[11] p. 45
[12] p. 48
[13] p. 46
[14] p. 50-51

Timothy D. Walker
“Enlightened Absolutism and the Lisbon Earthquake: Asserting State Dominance over Religious Sites and the Church in Eighteenth-Century Portugal”
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 48, No. 3
[1] p. 309

0:00 Ghosts of Belmonte
2:48 Jewish Emancipation in Portugal
7:49 Samuel Schwarz
13:43 Artur Carlos de Barros Basto
16:43 Sefarad Reborn?

[joaosilva-hpvt]

As the grandson of Samuel Schwarz, I would like to congratulate you for your story. Many thanks Joao

[TheMacJew]

I know you're still at least two years away from WWII, but, when you get there, if you delve into the Shoah, PLEASE have a therapist on hand. Speaking from experience.

[Brian-----]

🙂 (Re: your survey) I'm one of your Catholic subscribers, and have one fairly recent Sephardic Portuguese ancestor (1/32), a man surnamed Muñoz I believe, who was a finance professional like me. He lived in Charleston, S. C. and I refer to his ethnicity as I don't know his religion of practice (in America it might have been Judaism, Christianity, or none). I'm faithfully Catholic and have significant exposure to Jewish culture. So you're reaching diverse viewers 🙂keep it up

[raphaelreichmannrolim]

Here in Brazil we had a lot of new christians. A city near where I live, in Paraíba, actually has a cactus forming a Menorah as it's symbol, crowned by a cangaceiro's hat with a star of David.

[EdMcF]

There is also the village of Carção, between Braganza and Mirando do Douro in north-east Portugal, (Trás-os-Montes), where the village coat of arms is a Menorah.

[Fgqwetttyvu]

Thanks for another great video, as a Sephardic I find your videos on Spain/Portugal especially interesting

[dwayneelvis]

Hi from Portugal! Been following you're videos for a while. Excellent work. I myself can trace some ancestry stemming from Castelo Branco area and loved to visit Belmonte. I can understand why Barros Bastos efforts failed however. Its too distant in the past, so many didnt see a point in reverting. Glad we are making amends with the past though.

Looking forward to your next video!

[ranakajiana]

Dear sam arronow, as non-jewish person who is an avid followers of yours, I hope you will continue your brilliant and impartial service to narrating history even beyond the creation of israel and even to the modern day, especially until the oslo accords. the world has already enough of biased telling, and there is something in your way of telling that truly captures the mind and attention of others, whatever religion they may be.

[andreantunha]

Muito bem feito o vídeo. Parabéns!
From Wiki:
"A Kahal Zur Israel (Congregação Rochedo de Israel) foi a primeira sinagoga das Américas. Funcionou em Pernambuco durante o período de dominação holandesa (1630 a 1657).
Durante esse período emigraram para o Recife milhares de judeus sefarditas de origem portuguesa, refugiados nos Países Baixos, que vieram para a então colônia holandesa atraídos pela liberdade de culto religioso. Seu primeiro rabino foi o luso-holandês Isaac Aboab da Fonseca (1605-1693) que chegou ao Recife em 1641 e ficou por lá durante 13 anos. Derrotados na Batalha dos Guararapes, fruto da Insurreição Pernambucana, as famílias judias retornaram para a Holanda a bordo do navio Valk. O desembarque ocorreu em Nova Amsterdã, atual Nova York, onde os judeus formaram a Congregação Shearith Israel, a primeira comunidade judaica da América do Norte."

[J-Bahn]

4:30 let this be a lesson to everyone; discrimination will always cost a country knowledge and wealth

[flamingflamingo]

I always learn something fascinating about Jewish history from your vids. Great job!

[AndrewDederer]

Wish I had this video (and You tube for that matter) when I was doing East Asian Studies in college. A perfect compare and contrast case for Japanese Christians under the Shogunate. Ironically, most of the missionaries working in Japan in the 16th century were Portuguese priests. When Japan opened again (and allowed Christianity to be practiced) after 250-odd years, there were still some "underground" Christians with some idiosyncratic traditions and prayers.

[realhawaiio]

I come from a new christian family. My great grandfather, in fact, was even called Crispim, which is associated with this heritage.
It's cool to see the history of the community in Portugal covered!
From a Portuguese

[chowyee]

The community at Belmonte bears a striking resemblance to the Kakure Kirishitan, ironic considering how it was the Portuguese who brought Catholicism to Japan.

[denovemportem]

Portuguese from Jewish descent here.
Part of my family comes from a Spanish Jew from Trabazos (near the Portuguese border) that escaped to the north of Portugal in the early XVI century (A cousin of mine made a huge research on our family heritage which is published as a 4 volume literary work).
Visited Belmonte a couple of times (Not too far from where my branch of the family established itself) and its always an emotional event for me.
Thank you so much for this

[MrMayorqw]

Barros Basto is a truly fascinating figure. He was always a somewhat eccentric man, including (IIRC) founding his own occult religion (a sort of weird Spiritist/Thelema hybrid) before arriving at a new identity as a Jew. His search for roots even led him to reconstruct an etymology for his surname, 'Barros', out of 'Bar-Rosh'.

Despite not being recognised as Jewish by several members of the community in Portugal even after his conversion, he threw himself into the project of bringing these cryptojewish communities back to Judaism. He was definitely what we would recognise today as a "seeker", constructing his identity as he went through life.

Given his lifelong search for meaning (again, spanning various religions and practices) and his tireless canvassing for funds to visit these communities, an essay in the 'History of Religion in Portugal' (alas, only available in Portuguese) describes him as a "unique example of a religious entrepreneur in the Portuguese context".

As a final aside, Salazar's official role in government was as Chief Minister / Prime Minister (Presidente do Conselho de Ministros), the head of the executive; the President of Portugal (then as now) has a largely ceremonial role.

[DjSensiOriginal]

Thank you! I really love this content I would love to see the spanish side of the history. In Spain, Chorizo (sausage) and Jamon (ham) were hung at the entrance of houses so that the Inquisition would not suspect that they were not a Catholic family...

[joserodrigues]

I myself have remote jewish ancestors as a great deal of Portuguese people. One fifth of the Hamas hostages either are Portuguese or have a link with Portugal. 20% of the Israeli Football National Team has Portuguese citizenship thanks to policy of allowing sephardic jews to claim Back Portuguese citizenship (estimated to be more then 50 thousands).

[osscouter]

Great presentation as always, Sam. Thank you.

[Artur_M.]

Absolutely fascinating! When I heard that you were working with Sir Manatee on something relating to Poland during WW1, I was not expecting it to have anything to do with Portugal.

Turns out that the town just north outside of Łódź (nice pronunciation, btw), where the Szwarc brothers were born, is Zgierz. I'm sending this video to my buddy from Zgierz right away.