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The Portuguese Jewish Refugees of Amsterdam
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a lesser-known chapter of Portuguese history: the flight of Portuguese Jews and New Christians to Amsterdam in the late 16th and 17th centuries. After the Portuguese Inquisition tightened its grip, many conversos—Jews who had been forced to convert—fled to the Dutch Republic, where they could openly practice Judaism. In Amsterdam, these refugees built a thriving community that included merchants like the Nunes family, who helped finance the Dutch West India Company, and scholars like Menasseh ben Israel, who argued for the readmission of Jews to…
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