Conference: "Jews from Loulé in the context of the Jewish presence in the medieval Algarve"
November 16, 2024 at 3 pm
By José Tavim
Municipal Archive of Loulé Professor Joaquim Romero Magalhães in Loulé
Organization: Loulé Municipal Council
“Loulé on the Timeline” in Conferences
This presentation focuses on the presence of Jews in the Kingdom of the Algarve up until the general expulsion of December 1492, with emphasis on documentation related to Silves and Loulé.
The importance of this documentation lies in the fact that, for both communities, there is fundamental or even unique information about the lives of medieval Jews, especially given the scarcity of sources produced by or about them. In their rarity, these documents provide valuable insights into the daily lives of these communities, their economic, social, and cultural experiences, and concrete traces of their linguistic identity as bearers of difference.
About the author
José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim has a PhD in Portuguese Studies from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is a professor and senior researcher at the History Center, Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon. He is also a collaborator at the CIDEHUS Research Center, at the University of Évora, and chair of the Seminar "The Jews in Portugal and the Diaspora", at the University of Lisbon. He published the book The Jews in the Portuguese Expansion in Morocco During the 16th Century (1997). He is the author of more than 60 articles and chapters published in Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, Italian, Hebrew, Turkish and Arabic. In collaboration with professor Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros, he founded Hamsa: Journal of Jewish and Islamic Studies.
Source: Loulé City Council
