Creator Bio
Isaac de Pinto
1717–1787
The de Pinto family was a wealthy family of Sephardic merchant bankers living in Amsterdam. At the end of the fifteenth century, members of the family living in the Iberian Peninsula had converted to Christianity. During the seventeenth century, descendants of the de Pinto family settled in Amsterdam, where they began to practice Judaism openly. The Portuguese chronicle details the family’s history.
Content by Isaac de Pinto
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Family Chronicle
When I was born, I was given the name Manuel, after my grandfather, Manuel Alvares Pinto, as was said earlier. For this reason and because I was my father’s eldest son, my grandfather always had me…
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Reflexoens politicos tocante a constituaçāo da Naçāo Judaica (Political Reflections Concerning the Constitution of the Jewish Nation)
No matter what the body of the Nation, be it in the form of a kingdom or a republic, it comprises various classes of people; as for the nobles, who make the state blossom through commerce, increased…
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