02/05/2021
"VINDOS DE PORTUGAL": TRACKING THE BACKGROUND OF PORTUGUESE REFUGEES IN 18TH-CENTURY LONDON
SEPHARDIC WORLD MEETING, SUNDAY 2 MAY 2021
Between 1720 and 1734, 106 of the 303 ketubot issued by Bevis Marks synagogue in London recorded the couple as 'Vindos de Portugal', arrivals from Portugal. This was consequential to an upsurge in activity by the Portuguese Inquisition.
Carla Vieira has researched these Portuguese exiles who settled in London during the first half of the 18th century. This research includes analysis of Portuguese and English sources. and cross-checking data from Inquisitorial documents, diplomatic correspondence, Wills and congregational records.
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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