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The Belmonte Family
Write the Great Bookבלמונטי
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Belmonte lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Family of Portuguese New Christians who openly returned to Judaism in Amsterdam in the seventeenth century. Moshe Belmonte was a poet, and the family counted several merchants and patrons.
Geographic origin: Portugal, Amsterdam
Memory register · custodian, not owner
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<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/belmonte">Belmonte — Zakhor</a>Citation
Belmonte — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/belmonteVariants of the name (6)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin5
Bel MonteBellmontBelmontBelmonthBelmontte
עברית · Hebrew1
בלמונטי
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Notable figures
- 1.
Moshe Belmonte
Poète séfarade d'Amsterdam
In memory
The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem records the women, men, and children murdered during the Shoah. You can search there for the people who bore the name Belmonte.
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Works & texts (3)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
début XVIIe s. (Amsterdam)
Job (récit poétique de l'Inquisition, cent octaves)
Jacob (Israel) Belmonte
Poème de Jacob (Israel) Belmonte. (début XVIIe s. (Amsterdam))
Amsterdam, 1724
Calendario Ebraico desde el año 5485 = 1724 hasta el de 5700 = 1940
Moses ben Joseph Belmonte
Livre (calendrier) de Moses ben Joseph Belmonte. (Amsterdam, 1724)
Amsterdam, 1726
Poème hébreu en tête du Pentateuque et Haftarot (éd. S. Rodrigues Mendes)
Moses ben Joseph Belmonte
Poème de Moses ben Joseph Belmonte. (Amsterdam, 1726)
Notable figures of the lineage
Places along the journey
Diaspora regions
Pays-BasPortugal
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Bibliography
Tags
#amsterdam#lieu-geo-auto#marranes#sefarade