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1. 500. Yil Vakfi - Tuerk Musevileri Müzesi (The Quincentennial Foundation - Museum of Turkish Jews)   
 
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Museum devoted to promote, both within the country and abroad,
the story of 700 years of amity between Turks and Jews - begining with the Ottoman conquest of Bursa(1326)- continuing with Beyazid II's warm welcome of the Sephardic Jews who prefered expulsion from Spain to giving up the faith and traditions of their ancestors - and carriying on until today. To show through the past 700 years how th...

2. A History of Jews in Hamburg   
 
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Struan Robertson's page includes numerous links concerning the history and Jewish community of Hamburg. The communal history is brought forth as well as particular emphasis on the Holocaust period, synagogues, local archives etc...

3. Argentina   
 
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A very brief history of the development of the Jewish community in Argentina, since the expulsion of the Jews to present times. There is also a picture of the Buenos Aires Jewish synagogue.

4. Articles on Crypto-Jews   
 
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The site offers a wide array of articles concerning different aspects of crypto jewry.

5. Artículos y recursos sobre Comunidades Judías del Mundo   
 
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Artículos, recursos y links sobre distintas comunidades judías alrededor del mundo, desde los judíos de Cuba y hasta los criptojudíos de Portugal.

6. Bet Yahdut Sefarad   
 
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Diversos temas são abordados aqui, concernentes ao judaísmo em geral e ao sefardita em particular. Uma página especial serve como mapa de todo o sítio, facilitando o acesso. O mais importante na lista, é a tradução do Michnê Torá para o português pelo r. J. de Oliveira. Há também à disposição o Michnê Torá interli...

7. Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives   
 
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The Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives at the University of Arizona Library is a research collection dedicated to collecting and recording the dramatic history of pioneer Jews in the Desert Southwest, covering Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas. It is a repository for major collections of primary materials on Jewish families from these areas -- including the Fred and Harriet Rochlin Collection and R...

8. Comunita Ebraica di Torino(Jewish Community of Turin)   
 
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This site is dedicated to the history and current communal life of the Jewish community of Turin. The site also brings forth the various synagogues in the city, accompanied by visual pictures.

9. Converso Dualities in the First Generation: The Cancioneros   
 
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An article about the fifteenth-century Spanish Cancioneros: a collections of vivid, popular poems that flourished parallel to the first converso generation, and how they illuminate glances into the converso situation and its early dualities.

10. Conversos Judasaintes Tried by the Mexican Inquisition 1528-1815   
 
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This site consists of an index to some of the names of Conversos who were tried in New Spain (Mexico) by the Spanish Inquisition for relapsing into Judaism, 1528-1815, and a short bibliography.

11. Dona Gracia of the House of Nasi   
 
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Businesswoman and philanthropist Dona Gracia Mendes, born into a wealthy family that escaped the Inquisition in Portugal in the late 15th century, crossed Europe and settled in Constantinope. Throughout her life, she was known for her generosity and her devotion to Judaism and her fellow Jews.

12. Hispania Judaica   
 
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Hispania Judaica is a research project within the Dinur Centre for Research in Jewish History at the Institute of Jewish Studies in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Hispania Judaica field of work is related to the history of Spanish and Portuguese Jewry and the Conversos in the Iberian Peninsula both before and after the 1492 expulsion; it includes organisation of symposiums and lectures, e...

13. Internet Medieval Sourcebook - Medieval Jewish Life   
 
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The site presents the Jewish section of the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, offering numerous links about the medieval Jewish communities all over the world, economical issues, anti-semitism, religious aspects and figures, as well as primary documents (translated) concerning the various categories.

14. Isaac ben Judah Abravanel - Statesman, Financier, and Biblical Commentator   
 
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Isaac ben Judah Abravanel was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1437. He studied both Talmud, philosophy, and secular studies. He was one of the first Jewish scholars to be influenced by Renaissance writers.
He wrote commentaries on the Bible, and compared the monarchies described in I Samuel to the monarchies of his day. He disagreed with the RaMBaM. He predicted that the Messiah would come in the ne...

15. La Página de Chami   
 
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This is a personal site written by Pablo Andres Chami. The site elaborates on the jewish roots of the Argentinian Jews, focusing on the Spanish inquisition and the Jews of Sepharad.

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