Later I posted a photo from 1910 of a meeting of Jewish notables with the Rabbi Haim Nahum Effendi
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Nahum taken in the Lisbona house
Sunday, 27 March 2016
Jews from Damascus and the Tzfat (Safed) connection
A few months ago I discovered a group on Facebook of the Israeli organisation of Jews from Damascus https://www.facebook.com/groups/misham/ where I first posted a1906 postcard of the LIsbona mansion in Damascus and got quite a few comments , mostly from people who had learnt there - it had served as a Jewish school until the Jewish community formally closed in 1992.
Friday, 25 March 2016
What is this blog?
What is a blog anyway? Typically it is a form of diary.
The purpose of this blog is to document the progress of research into the Lisbona family from Syria and Egypt and , presumably, originally from Portugal before the expulsion of Jews in 1497 and the Lisbona mansion in Damascus. See also History of the Jews of Portugal .
David Lisbona started to document the Lisbona family tree in the 1980's and David's work was much improved and enriched by the researches of Maurice Hazan z"l of Paris, a French Sephardi genealogist and Lydia Collins of London, who published in 1987 her book the Sephardim of Manchester with an extensive chapter with family trees on the Lisbonas.
Much credit should be given also to Alain Farhi who has done remarkable work in documenting the family trees of Jews of the Ottoman Empire (including the Lisbonas) on his remarkable website Les Fleurs de l'Orient .
Over time David made contact with Lisbona family members all over the world and has updates the family trees which are on MyHeritage.com and geni.com
In 2016 the research received an impetus from David's meeting various family members in Brazil (Alain Bigio and Diane Kupferman) and contacts generated with Lisbona family members Sharon Benush and Eilon Levy.
David, Sharon and Eilon are actively researching the family , and the house in Damascus.
The purpose of this blog is to document the progress of research into the Lisbona family from Syria and Egypt and , presumably, originally from Portugal before the expulsion of Jews in 1497 and the Lisbona mansion in Damascus. See also History of the Jews of Portugal .
David Lisbona started to document the Lisbona family tree in the 1980's and David's work was much improved and enriched by the researches of Maurice Hazan z"l of Paris, a French Sephardi genealogist and Lydia Collins of London, who published in 1987 her book the Sephardim of Manchester with an extensive chapter with family trees on the Lisbonas.
Much credit should be given also to Alain Farhi who has done remarkable work in documenting the family trees of Jews of the Ottoman Empire (including the Lisbonas) on his remarkable website Les Fleurs de l'Orient .
Over time David made contact with Lisbona family members all over the world and has updates the family trees which are on MyHeritage.com and geni.com
In 2016 the research received an impetus from David's meeting various family members in Brazil (Alain Bigio and Diane Kupferman) and contacts generated with Lisbona family members Sharon Benush and Eilon Levy.
David, Sharon and Eilon are actively researching the family , and the house in Damascus.
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