The New World
Current name for the New World
America
Jews who were forcibly converted to Catholicism
Conversos
Who recaptures the city in 1654
Portugal
Rights Jews SLOWLY gained
Land for a Jewish cemetery, engage in free trade, own real estate (houses), serve in the local guard, become full citizens
Methods Spain used against Jews who pretended to be Catholic
Torture, death
Current day New Amsterdam
New York
Converted Jews who secretly practiced Judaism
Crypto Jews (Marranos)
How some Jews grew wealthy in Brazil
Sugar farms
A struggle Jews faced in New Amsterdam
Debts, Governor trying to force them out, no close relatives or friends, persecution, no home
Where Christopher Columbus first landed, where Luis de Torres stayed
By the American Revolution, there were 2.5 million people in the thirteen colony and a number of Jews (150<?<50,000)
3,000
Converted Jews who secretly practice Judaism
Crypto Jews (Marranos)
The century that the first rabbit arrived in the New World
1600s
Holland's Dutch colony in America
New Amsterdam
Name of Spanish-descending Jews
Sephardics
How many Jews came over on Christopher Columbus's ship (1<?<10)
at least 6
The year of the Expulsion from Spain
1492
The first Jewish settlement in America (Brazil is part of the Americas)
Recife (ruh-cee-fee)
The name of the company that helped house Jews in New Amsterdam
Dutch West India Company
The word for Jewish migration
Diaspora
The first Jew to settle in America did what on Christopher Columbus's ship
Luis de Torres - interpreter
Number of Jews publicly burned between 1481 and 1492
13,000
The name of the first rabbi in the New World (first name suffices)
Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
The first Jew to own property in the colonies
Asser Levy
Pidyon sh'vuyim - the mitzvah of...
Rescuing the captive