Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue (Hebrew: קהל צור ישראל, lit. 'Congregation Rock of Israel'; Portuguese: Sinagoga Kahal Zur Israel; Dutch: Synagoge Kahal Zur...

of Dutch rule, setting up in Recife the first synagogue in the Americas, the Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, as early as 1636. Most of those Jews were Sephardic...

been expelled from Portugal in 1497. In 1636, the Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, the first synagogue in the Americas was built in Recife, the capital of...

שול, romanized: shul, Ladino: אשנוגה or אסנוגה esnoga (from "synagogue"); or קהל kahal, "community". Pronounced /ʃuːl/ SHOOL. This is a fairly modern...

community in Barbados to this day. The Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue in Recife, Brazil, erected in 1636, was the first synagogue erected in the Americas. Its foundations...

Amsterdam—present-day Manhattan—was founded. The first Synagogue built in the Americas, the Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, is located in Recife Antigo, on Rua do Bom...

the Americas. The name of his congregation was Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue and the community had a synagogue, a mikveh and a yeshiva as well. However, during...

Fonseca was invited by Moses Cohen Henriques appointed rabbi at Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue in Recife, in Pernambuco, Dutch Brazil. Portuguese Jews from Amsterdam...

The Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue in Mauritsstad (Recife) is the oldest synagogue in the Americas. An estimated number of 700 Jews lived in Dutch Brazil,...

sovereignty. They even founded the first public synagogue in the Americas there in 1636; the Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue. Further north in the Caribbean, the Protestant...

Judaism. The first Jewish community and the first synagogue in the Americas – Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue – was founded with the help of Moses Cohen Henriques...

from Holland, who formed a community in Recife called Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, the first synagogue in the Americas. On the reconquest of the Recife area...

history. Brazil has the oldest synagogue in the Americas founded during Dutch Brazil rule, Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, located in Recife. Erected in 1636...

to 20th and 21st century pieces. Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue: Sinagoga Kahal Zur Israel, the historic Recife synagogue in Recife Antigo, is the oldest in...

(1645-54)." In Diasporaporas Winthin a Disapora. Jonathan I. Israel, ed. Leiden: Brill 2002. Israel, Jonathan, Stuart B. Schwartz, and Michiel van Groesen....

Sul, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. The first synagogue in the Americas, Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue - was established by the Dutch in Recife in 1636...

later migrate elsewhere in the Americas. There are records that in 1636 a synagogue was being built in the city. A Jewish scholar from Amsterdam, Isaac Aboab...

Doboj Synagogue (Doboj) Brazil: Congregação Israelita Paulista (São Paulo), Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue (Recife), Sha'ar Hashamayim Synagogue (Belém)...

living as conversos began to practice Judaism openly. In 1719, the synagogue Kahal Kadosh Neve Tsedek in Port Royal was built. By the year 1720, 18 percent...

Henry Adams, emigrates to Massachusetts. The first synagogue of the New World, Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, is founded in Recife by the Dutch. January 1 –...

rabbi to the colony, as well as building a mikvah and synagogue (the kahal zur Israel synagogue) - all firsts for the New World. However, in 1654, the...

am – 5 pm; Saturday and Sunday 2–5 pm Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue Kahal Zur Israel The historic Recife synagogue in the Recife Antigo, --Old Recife—is...

Henry Adams, emigrates to Massachusetts. The first synagogue of the New World, Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue, is founded in Recife by the Dutch. January 5 –...

James Lancaster. 1630 - Siege of Recife by Dutch forces. 1637 - Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue built. 1649 - Second Battle of Guararapes 1654 - Recapture of...

current city of Recife the first Jewish temple in the Americas, the Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue. In the mid-1850s, a group of Dutch immigrants emigrated to Brazil...

to Instituto Ricardo Brennand. Museu do Estado de Pernambuco Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue National Historical Museum (Brazil) "Ricardo Brennand: o senhor...

various other countries of South America, such as Brazil (see Synagogue Kahal Zur Israel in Recife), Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile, Peru and Ecuador...