Ruling the Sephardic Atlantic - The Ascamot and the Organisation of Portuguese-Jewish Communities

The full title of this meeting is: Ruling the Sephardic Atlantic - The Ascamot and the Organisation of Portuguese-Jewish Communities in the 17th and 18th Centuries
This lecture compares the regulations (Ascamot) of eight Sephardic congregations: Amsterdam, Recife, Hamburg, London, Curaçao, Bayonne, Suriname, and New York. We'll explore how these regulations fostered community cohesion and adapted to local challenges while maintaining unity. Discover the influence of the Congregation of Talmud Torah of Amsterdam and the unique aspects of each community, including the role of the Mahamad and the adaptation to distinct host environments.
Carla Vieira is a senior researcher at the CHAM - Center for the Humanities, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is also a researcher at the Cátedra de Estudos Sefarditas Alberto Benveniste (School of Arts and Humanities, Universidade de Lisboa) and editor of the journal Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas. Her research has focused on the history of conversos in Portugal and the Western Sephardic diaspora in the Atlantic space. At the moment, she is developing the post-doctoral project "Nation between Empires. Sephardic Diaspora and the Anglo-Portuguese alliance (first half of the 18th century)", sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (SFRH/BPD/109606/2015). She is also the principal investigator of the project Western Sephardic Diaspora Roadmap.
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