ACORES...SOME JEWISH CONNECTIONS

Dear Rufina:

I will send additional material--but here are some names on the Azorean front:

1.) From 1700's tax list in Sao Miguel--new christians: Dias, Lopes, Gaspar, Mendes, Pereiria,  
     DaCunha, Soares, Alvares, Medeiros

2.) On december 21, 1836, a contract was made between Francisco Moniz Pereira, Jacinto de
     Camara, and Candida Vicencia Benavita (widow of another Camara) to sell a building to a
     group led by Abraham Ben Saude. That buiulding became the "Gates of Heaven" synagogue
     in Sao Miguel which was established in 1836. The founders were: Abraham BenSaude
     (who came to the island in 1819), Salom Buzaglio, Joze Azulay, Salomao BenSaude, Izaac  
     Zafrany, Elias BenSAude, and Fortunato Abecassiz.

3.) The cemetery in Ponta Delgada has close to 150 grave markers. The earliest graves are
      from the 1840's; the last burial appears to be 12-5-79. Many Morrocan names; some
      German around the 1940's.

4.) Golda Meir visited the island in 1921 for 12 days on her way to Israel. This was her first
      trip to Israel. (recorded in her autobiograhy).

Kind regards
 
Bob Waxler

E-mail: Rufina Bernardetti Silva Mausenbaum