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Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.
The Castro Family
Write the Great Bookקסטרו
Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Castro lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.
Surname of Spanish origin, an ethnic name derived from the locality of Castro in the province of Toledo, borne by both Jews and Christians of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. — Source: J. Toledano, "Une histoire de familles : les noms de famille juifs d'Afrique du Nord".
Geographic origin: Portugal, Amsterdam
Memory register · custodian, not owner
A book yet to be written
The Great Book of the Castro lineage has not yet been written.
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Castro — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/castroVariants of the name (7)
One name, a hundred faces.
The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.
Latin2
Castro (Orobio)CASTO
עברית · Hebrew1
קסטרו
العربية · Arabic1
كاسترو
Кириллица · Cyrillic3
КастроКаструКаштру
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Notable figures
- 1.
Isaac Orobio de Castro
Médecin et polémiste apologétique
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 Castro.
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Works & texts (5)
Documents published on Zakhor linked to this lineage through their keywords.
seconde moitié du XVIIᵉ s.
Prevenciones Divinas contra la vana idolatría de las gentes
Isaac Orobio de Castro
Manuscrit (apologie anti-chrétienne) de Isaac Orobio de Castro. (seconde moitié du XVIIᵉ s.)
Amsterdam, 1684 (réimpr. 1703, 1731 ; trad. esp. La Haye 1741)
Certamen Philosophicum Propugnatæ Veritatis Divinæ ac Naturalis (adversus J. Bredenburgi principia)
Isaac Orobio de Castro
Livre (traité philosophique) de Isaac Orobio de Castro. (Amsterdam, 1684 (réimpr. 1703, 1731 ; trad. esp. La Haye 1741))
1re éd. Constantinople, 1718
Erech Lechem (commentaire sur le Choulhan Aroukh)
Yaakov de Castro (Maharikash)
Commentaire de Yaakov de Castro (Maharikash). (1re éd. Constantinople, 1718)
XVIIᵉ s. (Israel Vengé imprimé 1770)
Epístola invectiva contra un Judío Philósopho Médico (contre Juan de Prado) ; Tratado… de las 70 semanas de Daniel (1675) ; Israel Vengé (publié à Londres, 1770)
Isaac Orobio de Castro
Manuscrits / œuvre posthume de Isaac Orobio de Castro. (XVIIᵉ s. (Israel Vengé imprimé 1770))
Ohalei Yaakov (responsa)
Yaakov de Castro (Maharikash)
Responsa de Yaakov de Castro (Maharikash).
Notable figures of the lineage
Diaspora regions
FrancePays-BasPortugal
The days of this book
This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Castro give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.
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Bibliography
- Kayserling, Bibl, 35f
- jc (Oct. 21, 1898)
- Jewish World
- « Castro », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007) ↗
- M. Gaster, History of the Ancient Synagogue (1901)
- H.D. Love, Vestiges of Old Madras 1640–1800 (1913)
- A. van Creveld, Levensbericht van D. Henriquez de Castro (1899)
- A. Hyamson, Sephardim of England (1951)
- Fischel, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (1960)
Tags
#amsterdam#apologétique#lieu-geo-auto#sefarade