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Pic: Joao-Bizarro
SPECIAL REPORT: The new hidden Jews of Oporto
By Michelle Rosenberg
More than 500 years after the expulsion of its community, the Jews of Portugal’s second city are defiantly staging a renaissance
Pic: Joao-Bizarro
SPECIAL REPORT: The new hidden Jews of Oporto
By Michelle Rosenberg
Pic: Joao-Bizarro
September 9, 2024, 12:50 pm
SPECIAL REPORT: The new hidden Jews of Oporto
More than 500 years after the expulsion of its community, the Jews of Portugal's second city are defiantly staging a renaissance
By Michelle Rosenberg
Michael Rothwell the director of the Holocaust and the Jewish museums in Porto (left) and Sebastião Feyo (right) president of the Porto municipal assembly, with the school students (credit: CIP/CJP).
November 9, 2023, 3:42 pm
Hundreds of schoolchildren from Portugal commemorate Kristallnacht
Students from across the country visited the Holocaust Museum in Porto to remember the series of pogroms in Germany on 9 November 1938
By Michelle Rosenberg
Sebastião Feio, president of the Porto municipal general assembly, speaks at a ceremony dedicating the Portuguese city's memorial to the local victims of the Inquisition, Sept. 3, 2023. (Courtesy CIP-CJP)
September 11, 2023, 12:26 pm
Porto’s Jewish community unveils memorial to 842 local victims of Portuguese Inquisition
Victims killed or expelled from 1536 to 1821 were aged between 10 and 110 years old
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
July 29, 2021, 9:10 am
Porto gifts visitor books to Yad Vashem
Local community says the book includes 22,000 messages - and not a single one which criticises the Jewish state
Sefarad
November 16, 2019, 5:42 pm
Tiny Portuguese community makes a £930,000 feature film about its history
90-minute doc titled “Sefarad” tells the centuries-old Jewish history in the country dating back to the 15th century
By JTA
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