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INDEX
Aaron (family), 13
Abdulrahman III, Caliph, 36
Abdy, Sir Robert Edward Henry, 158
Aberdare, Henry Campbell Bruce,
Lord, 158
Abravanel (family), 50
Abravanel, Don Isaac, 48, 50
Adams, H. P., 48
Adams, Samuel, 133
Africa, northern: Sephardim, 52, 53,
284, 287, 288
Alexander VI, Pope, 79
Alfonso X (Alfonso the Wise; Alfonso
the Learned), King, 36
Alger, Horatio, 255-56
Algonquin Indians, 89-90
Alpert (family), 31
Alport (family), 31
Amador de los Rios, Jose Fernandez,
32
American Jewish Historical Society,
26
Amsterdam: Sephardim, 27, 52, 53
Andalusia: Moors, 37
Sephardim, 37, 46, 83
Andre, Maj. John, 151-52
Andrews, Charles, 184
anti-Semitism, see Jews, anti-Semitism
Amott, Nina Mapleson, see Nathan,
Mrs. Washington
Ashkenazim, 19, 500, 120, 202, 203
and Sephardim, 19, 120-21, 123-
24, 125-26, 147, 201-4, 229,
255, 291, 294-95
see also Germany, Jews; Jews and
Judaism
Astor, John Jacob, 88, 92
Astor, Mrs. William, 60, 232, 234,
235, 273
Auchincloss (family), 230
Audler, Solomon, 124, 125
Baiz, Decadie, 123
Bajazet II, Sultan, 47, 50
307
Balmain, Count Alexander, 150
Barbados: Sephardim, 65
slave trade, 97
Barclay (family), 230
Barclay, Cornelia, see De Lancey,
Mrs. Stephen
Barclay, James, 208, 209
Bar Harbor: Sephardim, 230
Barnard, George S., 253
Barreto, Gen., 53-54
Baruch, Bernard, 282
Baruch, Bernhard, 282
Beekman (family), 95
Belgium: Sephardim, 28, 283
Belknap, Jeremy, 98
Belper, Algernon Henry Strutt, Baron,
158
Benjamin, Judah P., 235-36
Bent, Frank, 258
Bent, Mrs. Frank (Emily Cardozo),
257-58, 264
Black Plague, 39
Blair, Maj. Gen., 243, 244
Blake, James H., 219
"blue blood, " origin of term, 37
Boabdil, King, 46
Bogardus (family), 95
Bond, Lt., 188
Boston: Touro bequest, 130
Bourdeaux, Rose, 123
Bradford, Orlando Bridgeman, Earl
of, 158
Brandon (family), 276; see also de
Fonseca-Brandon (family)
Brandon, Frances Marion, 276-82
Brandon, Lyman, 276-77, 281, 282
Brazil: as Dutch colony, 52-53, 54,
62, 64, 65
as Portuguese colony, 53, 54
Sephardim, 53-54, 62, 64
Brewster (family), 162
Burden, Mrs. William A. M., 16
Bush, Mathias, 201
Butler, Benjamin, 216-19 passim
Cabral, Pedro Alvarez, 53
Capon, Ruy, 45
Cardozo (family), 60, 252, 257-58,
288, 295
Cardozo, Albert, 250, 252-56 passim,
257
Cardozo, Albert (Allie), 255
Cardozo, Mrs. Albert (Rebecca Nathan),
252, 257
Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan, 21, 22,
254-66 passim, 272, 301
Cardozo, Elizabeth, 258-59, 264
Cardozo, Ellen, 258, 259, 261, 263,
265-66
Cardozo, Emily, see Bent, Mrs. Frank
Cardozo, Grace, 257
Cardozo, Michael Hart, 252
Cardozo & Nathan, 22
Carlos II, King, 85
Castro, Archdeacon de, 81
Castro, Americo, 37
Catholicism, see Christianity
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 271
Cazenove, Pierre Andre Destrac, 131
Cedarhurst (L.I.): Sephardim, 14
Charleston: Sephardim, 95, 289
Christianity: conversions to, by Jews,
19, 31-32, 204
conversions to, by Jews and Moors,
see Conversos
conversions to Judaism, 19
Crusades, 35-36, 39, 41
Inquisition, 53, 72-74
see also Spain, Inquisition
Churchill, Mrs. Randolph, 158
Clinton (family), 149
Clinton, Gov. George, 88, 149
Clinton, Sir Henry, 154
Cochrane, Sir Alexander, 181
Cohen, Abraham, 171-72
Cohen, Myer David, 168
Cohen, Mrs. Myer David (Judith
Solis), 168
Columbus, Christopher, 36, 48-49, 50
Conrad, Barnaby, 16
Content, Rosa, see Seligman, Mrs.
James
Conversos (Catholic converts; New
Christians): Moors, 40-41,
42-43, 76
Sephardim, 40-41, 42, 44, 45, 46,
49, 74-76, 80, 82-83
reconversion to Judaism, 53
see also Marranos
Cordoba: Moors, 34, 42
Sephardim, 33, 42, 46
Coronel (family), 49
Cotton, John, 133
Crane, Capt. William, 19o-g1, 192,
193
Crawford, William H., 183
Cresques, Judah, 48
Curacao: Sephardic cemetery, 53
Da Costa (family), 276; see also
Mendes-da Costa (family)
Da Costa, Benjamin, 175
Da Costa, Moses, 175
d'Acosta, Joseph, 68
Dale, Clara, 247, 250
Dandrada, Salvador, 67
d'Angers, Pierre Jean David, 207
da Silva (family), 19, 21, 166-67,
169 Da Silva, Duarte, 166
da Silva, Miguel Pacheco, see Seixas,
Abraham Mendes
Da Silva Solis (Da Silva y Solis;
family), see Solis (family)
Daughters of the American Revolution,
143
Davis, Jefferson, 236, 239
de Fonseca (family), 8, 275, 276
de Fonseca, Cardinal, 275
de Fonseca, Dona Isabel, 167
de Fonseca-Brandon (family), 275-
76 de Fonseca-Brandon, James, 275-76
De Lamar, Alice A., 278
De Lamar, Raphael, 278
de la Motthe, Jacques, 54-59 passim,
61, 62
De Lancey (family), 16, 148
De Lancey, Charlotte, see Dundas,
Lady David
De Lancey, Oliver, 148-49
De Lancey, Mrs. Oliver (Phila
Franks), 148-49
De Lancey, Oliver, Jr., 151, 152
De Lancey, Phila, see Payne-Gallwey,
Mrs. Stephen
De Lancey, Stephen, 150
De Lancey, Mrs. Stephen (Cornelia
Barclay), 150
De Lancey, Susannah, see Draper,
Lady William
De Lancey, Sir William Howe, 150
de Leon (family), 71
de Leon, Jacob, 175, 176
de Lucena (family), 69, 96, 297
de Lucena, Abraham, 18, 21, 66-67,
68, 69, 71, 300
de Lucena, Abraham Haim, 70-71
de Lucena, Rebecca, 71
Denmark: slave trade, 97, 99
Depew, Chauncey, 273
de Peyster (family), 95
De Piza (Dias ), Abraham Israel, 57
de Rham, Henry C., 228
de Sola (family), 19, 27-28
de Sola, Aaron, 27
de Sola, Don Bartolome, 27
de Sola, Baruch ben Isaac Ibn Daud,
27 de Sola, David Aaron, 27
de Sola, Eliza, see Mendes, Mrs.
Abraham Pereira
de Sola, Isaac, 27
de Sola, Michael Ibn Daud, 27
de Torres, Luis, 49
de Torres, Rebecca, see Gomez, Mrs.
Daniel
de Vera, Don Lope, 80
Deza, Diego, 81
Digby, Edward Kenelm Digby, Baron,
158
Disraeli, Benjamin, 236
Draper, Lady William (Susannah De
Lancey), 149
Dreyfous (family), 18
Dundas, Lady David (Charlotte De
Lancey), 149
Dunphy, Thomas, 245
Dutch West India Company, 53, 61,
63-64, 67, 68
Dutch West Indies: Sephardim, 29, 53
Edgeworth, Maria, 230, 234-35
Edict of Nantes, 86
Edman, Irwin, 262
Einglish, William, 101-6 passim
Ellery, Lt. Frank, 198-99
Ellis, George, 248
Ely, Nathan, 219
England, 52
Sephardim, 24, 27, 283
anti-Semitism, 95
in colonies, 65
expulsion, 73-74
England (cont' d)
slave trade, 97, 99
see also New York (English colony)
Etting (family), 144, 146, 158
Etting, Emlen, 144
Etting, Esther, see Hays, Mrs. David
Etting, Reuben, 145
Etting, Reuben II, 158
Evans, Margaret, see Franks, Mrs.
David
Ewing, Samuel, 161
Faro, David Israel, 57, 58
Federation of Polish Jews of America,
140, 141
Ferdinand, King of Aragon, 43-47,
48, 49, 79
Ferdinand III, King, 36
Fita, Fidel, 77-78
Florance (family), 268
Florance, Annette, see Nathan, Mrs.
Robert Weeks
Florance, Ted, 268, 269
Florance, Mrs. Ted (Rosalie Nathan),
269
Florance, Mrs. William, 268
Forrester, Billy, 248
France: Edict of Nantes, 83
Jews, 38
Sephardim, in colonies, 64-65
slave trade, 97, 99
Franco (family), 293; see also Franks
(family)
Franco, Gen. Francisco, 293
Franco, Nicolao, 46
Frankfurter, Felix, 262
Franklin, Benjamin, 133, 163
Franks (family), 17, 134, 140, 145-
46, 158-59
Franks, Aaron, 146
Franks, Abigail, see Hamilton, Mrs.
Andrew
Franks, David, 146, 150, 154-55, 157,
159, 201
Franks, Mrs. David (Margaret
Evans), 150
Franks, Col. David Salisbury, 163
Franks, Isaac, 137, 149
Franks, Jacob, 146
Franks, Mrs. Jacob (Abigail Levy),
146, 147-49, 150
Franks, Moses, 134
Franks, Naphtali ( "Heartsey"), 147,
148
Franks, Mrs. Naphtali (Phila
Franks), 151
Franks, Phila, see De Lancey, Mrs.
Oliver; Franks, Mrs. Naphtali
Franks, Rachel, see Salomon, Mrs.
Haym
Franks, Rebecca, see Johnson, Lady
Henry
Franks, Richa, 148
Fulton, Robert, 174
Gansevoort, Leonard, 134
Gaon, Dr. Solomon, 294
Garrison, Washington, 181
Germany: Jews, 15, 31, 33, 38; see
also Ashkenazim
Gerstein, Dr. Louis C., 294
Gilder, Richard Watson, 273
Gillespie, George J., 277-81 passim
Gillette (family), 162
Ginillo (family), see Santangel (family)
Gir6n, Don Pedro, 45
Goldstone, Harmon Hendricks, 300
Goldstone, Lafayette, 18-19
Goldstone, Mrs. Lafayette, 261, 262,
300-2
Gomez (family), 18, 21, 29, 7Q-71,
72, 92-93, 96, 108, 127, 134,
255, 297
in Spain, 84, 85, 86
Gomez, Alfonso, 84
Gomez, Daniel, 87-92 passim, 85,
108-10, 117
Gomez, Mrs. Daniel (Rebecca de
Torres), 87
Gomez, Mrs. Daniel (Esther Levy),
87 Gomez, David, 148
Gomez, Esther, see Gomez, Mrs.
Moses
Gomez, Eve Esther, see Hendricks,
Mrs. Uriah
Gomez, Isaac (b. 1620), 84, 85-86
Gomez, Isaac, Jr. (18th cent.), III
310
Gomez, Isaac (18th cent.), 171
Gomez, Joseph Edwin, Jr., 93
Gomez, Lewis (Louis) Moses, 84, 85,
86-87 Gomez, Mrs. Lewis (Esther Marques),
86 Gomez, Mathias, 121
Gomez, Mordecai, 231
Gomez, Moses, 92, 110, 117
Gomez, Mrs. Moses (Esther Gomez),
110
Gomez, Violante de Santangel, 84
Gonzalez de Mendoza, Cardinal Pedro,
46
Goodwin (family), 16
Goodwin, Dr. Lyde, 16
Gorme, Eydie, 31
Gould, Jay, 252, 253-54
Granada: Alhambra, 34
Cathedral, tomb of Ferdinand and
Isabella, 43-44
Moors, 34, 38, 46
Sephardim, 33, 84
Gratz (family), 146, 158, 159, 162-
63
Gratz, Benjamin III, 162
Gratz, Helen, see Rockefeller, Mrs.
Godfrey S.
Gratz, Henry Howard, 162
Gratz, Joseph, 159
Gratz, Michael, 157, 159
Gratz, Rachel, see Moses, Rachel Gratz
Gratz, Rebecca, 158-63 passim, 202
Gratz, Simon, 167
Great Seal (U.S.), 133
Greece: Sephardim, 52, 288, 289; see
also Sephardim, Levantine
Sephardim
Guggenheim (family), 15
Guiana: Sephardim, 53
Gurney, Gene and Clare, 298
Hale, John P., 215
Hamilton, Andrew, 158
Hamilton, Mrs. Andrew (Abigail
Franks), 150-51, 156, 158
Hart (family), 18, 29, 115, 297
Hart, Isaac, 115
Hart, Jacob, 201
Hassan, Suley, 167
Hay, Mary Garrett, 271
Hays (family), 29, 127, 144, 146,
158, 170
Hays, Catherine, 127-28
Hays, Caty, see Sarzedas, Mrs. Abraham
Hays, Charity, see Solis, Mrs. Jacob
da Silva
Hays, David, 144-45, 150
Hays, Mrs. David (Esther Etting),
144, 145, 150
Hays, Judah, 16g-70
Hays, Moses, 127
Hays, Rachel, 170
Hays, Rebecca, 127
Hays, Mrs. Samuel, 158
Hebrew language, 202, 290
Hellman, George, 263
Hendricks (family), 18, 21, 25, 29,
50, 67, 71, 108, 170, 227, 228,
229, 277, 295
Hendricks, Emily, see Nathan, Mrs.
Benjamin Seixas
Hendricks, Harmon, 18, 171-'77, 227,
228
Hendricks, Henry, 177, 219, 227
Hendricks, Mrs. Henry (Harriet Tobias),
227
Hendricks, Mrs. Henry S. (Rosalie
Nathan), 25-26, 231
Hendricks, Hermoine, see Tobias, Mrs.
Isaac
Hendricks, Montague, 177
Hendricks, Roselane, see Tobias, Mrs.
Henry
Hendricks, Sally, 176
Hendricks, Uriah, 18, 170-71
Hendricks, Uriah II, 227
Hendricks, Mrs. Uriah (Eve Esther
Gomez), 170, 171
Hendricks, Mrs. Uriah (Rebecca Lopez),
170
Hendricks, Mrs. Uriah II (Fanny
Tobias), 227
Hendricks, Uriah II, 177
Hendricks, Ziporah Levy, 17
Henriques (family), 25; see also Hendricks
(family)
Henriques, Jacob, 68
Henry (family), 174
Hitler, Adolf, 293, 301
Hoffman, Matilda, 160
Hoffman, Ogden, 160
Holland: Brazil as colony, 53-54, 62,
64, 65
Dutch West India Company, 53,
61, 63-64, 67, 68
Dutch West Indies, 29, 53
New Amsterdam, see New York
(New Amsterdam)
Sephardim, 24, 27, 28, 29, 52, 53,
54, 62, 66, 67-68, 283
slave trade, 97, 99
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 262
Hopkins (family), 16
Hopkins, Samuel, 97
Howe, Gen. Sir William, 150
Indians, 62, 88-90
Jews, identification with, 89-90
Ingersoll (family), 16, 147
Innocent III, Pope, 38
Inquisition, 53, 72-74; see also Spain,
Inquisition
Irving, Washington, 160
Isaacs, Solomon, 174
Isabella, Queen, 43-48 passim, 73, 79
Italy: Jews, 38
Jackson, Andrew, 209
Jacobs, Samuel, 125-26
Jacobs, Mrs. Samuel (Rosette), 125-
26 James I, King of Aragon, 36
Jefferson, Thomas, 133, 138, 179, 207,
208, 209, 299
Jews and Judaism: anti-Semitism, 61-
69 passim, 73-74, 95, 195-g6,
200, 213, 219, 220-21
see also Spain, Sephardim, anti-
Semitism
conversions to Christianity, 19, 31-
32, 203-4
see also Conversos, Sephardim
ghettos, 33
Hebrew language, 202, 290
identification badge and dress, 38-
39, 42, 78-79, 301
Indians, identification with, 89-90
Jewishness descendant from distaff
side, 17
Mosaic Code, 133
Reform movement, 203, 264, 284
slave trade, 96, 100-1
taxation, 33
Yiddish language, 202
zekhut avot (ancestral merit), 20
see also Ashkenazim; Sephardim
John II, King of Castile, 40
John II, King of Portugal, 37
Johnson, Lady Henry ( Rebecca
Franks), 17, 150-59 passim,
178
Johnson, Sir Henry, 17, 157
Johnston, Johnny, 230-31
Johnston, Mrs. Johnny (Annie Lazarus),
230-31, 232
Jones, Thomas Catesby, 193
Joy, Levi, 182
Juana la Loca (Joan the Mad), 81,
84-85
Judah, DeWitt Clinton, 17
Judah, Walter J., 297-g8
Judaism, see Jews and Judaism
Kamen, Henry, 78
Keenan, Annie, 245, 248
Kelly, Mrs., 240, 241, 243
Kelly, David, 26g-70, 271
Kelly, William, 240, 243, 249
Kierstede (family), 95
King (family), 229
Kohler, Max J., 141
Kosciusko, Thaddeus, 139
Kuhn (family), 15
Kuhn, Loeb & Company, 15
La Caballerla (family), 45
Ladino language (Judeo-Spanish),
37, 284, 290
Lane, Amos, 208
Langdon, Rev. Samuel, 133
Lazarus (family), 16, 229, 231-32,
288, 295, 297
Lazarus, Annie, see Johnson, Mrs.
Johnny
Lazarus, Emma, 16, 22, 231, 232, 240
Lazarus, Frank, 232-33
Lazarus, Jacob Hart, 231-32, 302
Lazarus, Mrs. Jacob Hart (Amelia
Barnard Tobias), 18, 231-34,
235
Lazarus, Sarah, 232
Lee, Gen. Charles, 153
312
Lehman (family), 15
Lehr, Harry, 235
Levy (family), 16, 69, 71, 87, 115,
124, 134, 146, 179, 229, 288
Levy, Abigail, see Franks, Mrs. Jacob
Levy, Amelia, see Von Mayhoff, Mrs.
Amelia Levy
Levy, Asser, 57, 70
Levy, Benjamin, 178
Levy, Esther, see Gomez, Mrs. Daniel
Levy, Fanny, see Lopez, Mrs. Abraham
Levy, Jacob, 108
Levy, Jefferson, 225, 229, 299
Levy, L. A. Jr., 124, 125
Levy, Mrs. L. Napoleon, 229
Levy, Moses, 69
Levy, Nathan, 178
Levy, Rachel, 299
Levy, Samson, 146, 179
Levy, Uriah Phillips, 178-200, 205,
207-22, 223, 224, 225, 226,
236, 298-89, 300
Levy, Mrs. Uriah Phillips (Virginia
Lopez), 215, 218, 221-25
Lewis, Harold L., 298, 300
Livingston (family), 16, 230
Lockerman (family), 95
Lodge (family), 16
Loeb (family), 15
Loeb, Carl Morris, 282
Loeb, Mrs. Carl Morris (Adeline
Moses), 282
Loeb, John L., 15, 282
Loeb, Rhoades & Company, 15
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 118-
19
Lopez (family), 19, 112, 115, 116,
127, 130, 134, 174, 235-36,
297
Lopez, Aaron, 95-96, 100-19 passim,
127
Lopez, Mrs. Aaron (Abigail or Anna),
96, 107, 145
Lopez, Mrs. Aaron (Sally Rivera),
107-8 Lopez, Abraham, 215
Lopez, Mrs. Abraham (Fanny Levy),
215
Lopez, Hannah, 108
Lopez, Moses, g6
Lopez, Rebecca, see Hendricks, Mrs.
Uriah
Lopez, Rebecca Touro, 129
Lopez, Samuel, 174-75
Lopez, Sarah ( Sally), see Mendes,
Mrs. Abraham Pereira
Lopez, Virginia, see Levy, Mrs. Uriah
Phillips
Lopez de Ayala, Pedro, 41
Lopez-Lopez, Rachel, 108
Los Angeles: Sephardim, 289
Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 273
Lumbroso, Mose, 57, 58
Lutherans: Dutch persecution, 62, 63
first American church, 70
Lyons, Sarah, 266
McAllister, Ward, 60, 235
McBlair (family), 16
McCann, John H., 253
McClure (family), 162
Mackay, Mrs. Clarence, 271
Madison, James, 138-39, 173, 228
Maduro (family), 170
Maduro, Levy, 169
Maduro, Mrs. Levy (Cohen Peixotio),
169 Maduro-Peixotto (family), 169
Maduro-Peixotio, Moses Levy, 170
Mangam, John, 242
Marks, Albert J. "Roley, " 121-23
Marques, Esther, see Gomez, Mrs.
Lewis
Marranos, 40, 49, 53, 57, 75-76, 83-
84, 283; see also Conversos,
Sephardim
Marshall (family), 162
Martinez, Don Ferran, 42
Martinique: Sephardim, 65
Martya, Jan, 57-58
Mathews, Annie, 277
Mayhew, Rev. Jonathan, 133
Mears, Judah, 149
Megapolensis, Rev. John, 63
Mellish, Kitty (Caterina Mendes-da
Costa Villa-Real Mellish), 276
Mellon (family), 235
Mendes (family), 19, 27, 28, 111,
115, 168, 236
Mendes, Abraham Pereira II, 28
Mendes, Abraham Pereira I, 111-14
passim, 117
Mendes, Mrs. Abraham Pereira (Eliza
de Sola), 28
Mendes, Mrs. Abraham Pereira
(Sarah or Sally Lopez), 96,
111-14 passim, 117
Mendes, Dona Caterina, 276
Mendes, David, 114
Mendes, David Franco, 54, 55
Mendes, Don Fernando, 276
Mendes, Dona Gracia (Lady Beatrice
de Luna), 28
Mendes, Henry Pereira, 26, 27, 28
Mendes, Leah, 111, 113-14
Mendes, Piza, 26-28 passim
Mendes-da Costa, Antonio, 276
Mendes-da Costa, Sarah, see de Fonseca-
Brandon, Sarah Mendesda
Costa
Mendola (family), 19
Mendoza y Bobadilla, Cardinal Francisco,
75
Mercado (De Mercado; de Mereda),
Judith (Judica), 57
Mesoncort, George, 181
Meyer, Dr. Alfred, 272, 273
Meyer, Mrs. Alfred (Annie Nathan),
21, 257, 267-68, 269, 271-74
passim, 291
Mill, David, 102-5 passim
Miller, Alice Duer, 273
Miller, Kenneth Hayes, 258
Mills, Harriet May, 271
Minis (family), 174
Monroe, James, 138, 194, 196
Moors, 33-41 passim, 46
Conversos, 39-41, 42, 76
and Sephardim, 34-35, 36, 37, 39-
40, 41, 47
Morgan (family), 235
Morocco: Sephardim, 52
Morris (family), 147
Morris, Robert, 135, 137, 141
Mosaic Code, 133
Moses (family), 15, 282
Moses, Adeline, see Loeb, Mrs. Carl
Morris
Moses, Lion, 137
Moses, Rachel Gratz, 161
Moya, Marquesa de, 45
Nathan (family), 18, 21-25, 29, 52,
60, 67, 71, 168, 226, 229, 237-
38, 288, 295
Nathan, Annie, see Meyer, Mrs. Alfred
Nathan, Benjamin Seixas, 238, 239-
50, 254
Nathan, Mrs. Benjamin Seixas (Emily
Hendricks), 238, 250
Nathan, Edgar J., Jr., 21, 22, 60
Nathan, Elvira, see Solis, Mrs. David
Hays
Nathan, Emily Da Silva Solis, 22-23,
25, 30, 167
Nathan, Frederick, 237, 240-43 passim
Nathan, Mrs. Frederick (Maud Nathan),
267, 271-72, 274
Nathan, Frederic Solis, 22
Nathan, Isaac Mendes Seixas, 21,
237-38
Nathan, Maud, see Nathan, Mrs.
Frederick
Nathan, Mendes Seixas, 21
Nathan, Mrs. Mendes Seixas (Sarah
Seixas), 21
Nathan, Rebecca, see Cardozo, Mrs.
Albert
Nathan, Robert, 264
Nathan, Robert Weeks, 267, 268,
269-70, 271
Nathan, Mrs. Robert Weeks (Annette
Florance), 268, 270-71
Nathan, Rosalie, see Florance, Mrs.
Ted; Hendricks, Mrs. Henry S.
Nathan, Sarah Seixas, 240
Nathan, Washington, 240-43 passim,
246-51 passim
Nathan, Mrs. Washington (Nina Mapleson
Amott), 251
Newbold (family), 147
New Orleans: Ashkenazim, 121, 123-
24, 125-26, 201
Sephardim, 95, 121-22, 123-24,
125-26, 168, 201
Touro bequest, 129
Newport: Jewish cemetery, 118, 132
Jewish club, 115, 126
17M
Newport (cont'd)
Sephardim, 95-96, 110, 115, 116,
145-46, 230, 289
slave trade, 96-100 passim
Touro bequest, 130
Touro Synagogue, 95, 126
New York (English colony): Ashkenazim,
147
Dutch in, 94-95
Sephardim, 68-69
New York (New Amsterdam)
Sephardim, 67-68
anti-Semitism, 61-69 passim
arrival of, 14, 30-31, 51, 55-60
New York City, 205-7
Barnard College, 21, 272-"74
Bronx, Sephardim in, 14
clubs closed to Jews, 16
Dutch Church, 94
Emanu-El, 264, 297
Harmonie Club, 295n
Lower East Side, 14, 264, 289
Montefiore Hospital, 28
Saint Mark's in-the-Bowery, 300
Sephardic cemeteries, 297, 298
Chatham Square Cemetery, 28,
60, 70, 297
Sephardic synagogues, 19, 60, 70,
288
Sephardim, 288-90
Shearith Israel, 19, 22, 87, 91,
237, 264-65, 291, 294, 295-
97
de Lucena, Abraham Haim, found-
ding, 59-60
Gerstein, Louis C., 294
Mendes, Henry Pereira, 26, 28
Pool, David de Sola, 28, 291, 301
Seixas, Gershom Mendes, 21, 170
and Touro Synagogue (Newport),
95
Trinity Church, 69, 87
Union Club, 232, 235, 255
Union League Club, 235
Upper East Side, 264
New York Guild for the Jewish Blind,
28 New-York Historical Society: Hendricks
Collection, 25-26
Nones, Benjamin, 137
Norden, De Leon, 202
Norfolk, Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan
Howard, Duke of, 158
Nunes (family), 71
Nunes, Ricke (Rachel), 57, 59
Pacheco, Don Juan, 45
Padilla, Dona Maria de, 46
Payne-Gallwey, Mrs. Stephen (Phila
De Lancey), 149
Peckham, Walton, 243
Peixotto (family), 19, 29, 169, 170,
297; see also Mendes-Peixotto
(family)
Peixotto, Antonio Mendes, 169
Peixotto, Cohen, see Maduro, Mrs.
Levy
Peixotto, Don Diego, 169
Peixotto, Joshua, 169
Perry, Comm. Matthew, 218
Pesoa, Isaac, 172
Peter I, King, 45-46
Philadelphia: Ashkenazim, 201-2
Meschianza, 150-52, 154
Mikveh Israel, 91, 291
Sephardim, 21, 95, 141, 144, 145-
46, 147, 156, 201, 28g
Philip I, King, 81
Philip II, King, 75
Philip III, King, 80
Philip IV, King, 84--85
Phillips (family), 29, 95
Phillips, Loyd Peixotto, 29
Phillips, Mrs. Lloyd Peixotto ( Beatrice),
29
Pierce, Franklin, 217
Pietersen, Solomon, 55-56, 59
Pilgrims, 61
Pinto, Beatrice, 166
Polhemius, Dominie Joannes, 63
Polynesia: Sephardim, 53
Pool, Dr. David de Sola, 28-29, 291,
301
Portland: Sephardim, 289
Portnoy (family), 31
Portugal: Brazil as colony, 53, 54
Sephardim, 14, 24, 27, 29, 30-33
passim, 35, 37, 38, 49, 51-52
slave trade, 97, 99
Potter, Lt. William, 185-88 passim
Primrose, Lady Lavinia Mary, 158
Pulaski, Casimir, 139
Pulgar, Hernando de, 44, 83
Puritans, 63, 132
Quakers: Dutch persecution, 62
Randolph, Edmund, 138-39
Randolph, Martha Jefferson, 208
Random, Don Francesco, 139
Rappaport (family), 31
Recife: Sephardim, 53, 54
Revere, Paul, 173
Rhodes: Sephardim, 284, 285, 289,
293
Ridgely, Charles Goodwin, 16-17
Riker, "Big Sam, " 233
Riker, "Little Sam, " 233
Rittenhouse (family), 229
Rivera (family), 115, 127
Rivera, Jacob Rodriguez, 96, 100-6,
107, 116, 126
Rivera, Sally, see Lopez, Mrs. Aaron
Rockefeller (family), 16, 235
Rockefeller, Mrs. Godfrey S. (Helen
Gratz), 162-63
Roos, Garret Janson, 70
Roosevelt (family), 229
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 141
Roosevelt, Theodore, 271, 299
Rosebery, Albert Edward Harry
Mayer Archibald, Earl of, 158
Rowland (family), 162
rum trade, 97-100 passim, 173
Sachs (family), 31
St. Clair, Gen. Arthur, 138
Saks (family), 31
Salmasius, 62
Salomon (family), 134, 136
Salomon, Haym, 132-43 passim, 150,
296
Salomon, Mrs. Haym (Rachel
Franks), 135, 140, 150
Salomon, Haym Moses, 139-40, 141
Salonica: Sephardim, 284, 285
Sanchez (family), 44
Sanchez, Gabriel, 48
Sancho II, King, 32
Santa Maria, Don Pablo de (Selemoh
ha-Levi), 39-40, 41
Santangel (family), 84
Santangel, Clara de, 84
Santangel, Donosa de, 84
Santangel, Gabriel de, 84
Santangel, Jaime Martin de, 84
Santangel, Luis de, 48, 84
Santangel, Simon de, 84
Santangel, Violante de, see Gomez,
Violante de Santangel
Saratoga: Sephardim, 230
Sartain, John, 159
Sarzedas, Abraham, 170
Sarzedas, Mrs. Abraham ( Caty
Hays), 170
Savannah: Sephardim, 95, 289
Saxe (family), 31
Schiff (family), 15, 235
Schuyler, Philip, 134
Scott, Sir Walter, 160-61
Scott, Gen. Winfield, 157-58
Scoville, Joseph, 177
Seattle: Sephardim, 289
Seixas (family), 18, 21, 29, 31-32,
50, 168, 169, 170, 229, 288,
297
Germanized versions of name, 31
in Spain, 31
Seixas, Abraham Mendes ( Miguel
Pacheco da Silva), 169
Seixas, Benjamin, 18
Seixas, Gershom Mendes, 18, 21, 26,
170, 238
Seixas, Moses, 164
Seixas, Sarah, see Nathan, Mrs.
Mendes Seixas; Nathan, Sarah
Seixas
Seixas, Vic, 3Z
Seixas, Victor Montefiore, 32
Selemoh, Don, 43, 44
Seligman (family), 255
Seligman, James, 229
Seligman, Mrs. James (Rosa Content),
229
Seligman, Joseph, 255
Senior, Don Abraham, 43, 44, 48, 49
Sepharad, 31
Sephardim, 202, 204
and Ashkenazim, 19, 120-21, 123-
24, 125-26, 147, 201-4, 229,
255, 291, 294-95
characteristics and traits, 19, 62-63
Sephardim (cont' d)
conversions to Christianity, 19,
203-4
Conversos, 40-41, 42, 44, 45, 46,
49, 74, 76, 80, 8z-83
reconversions to Judaism, 53
derivation of name, 31
in finance, 32-33, 35, 39, 43, 48,
62, 67-69, 74, 75
importance of the past, 30, 281-82,
294-95
Ladino language (Judea-Spanish),
37, 284, 290
Levantine Sephardim, 14, 50, 52,
284-91
magic and healing, 286-87
Marranos, 40, 49, 53, 57, 75-76,
83-84, 283
phoenix as symbol 66
zekhut avot (ancestral merit), 20
see also Jews and Judaism; Portugal,
Sephardim; Spain, Sephardim
Seville: Sephardim, 24, 27, 33, 42, 46,
76 Seward, William, 91
Shackelford (family), 2zg
"sheeny, " origin of word, 203
Shepherd, Rezin Davis, 130
Shippen, Peggy, 150
Sixtus IV, Pope, 79
slave trade, 95-100, 172-73
Solis (family), 19, 21, 166, 167, 168-
69, 170
Da Silva Solis (Da Silva y Solis;
family), 166-67
Solis, David, 168
Solis, Mrs. David Hays (Elvira Nathan),
22, 168
Solis, Elvira Nathan, 22-25, 30, 32,
60, 166, 167, 168
Solis, Fernao Jorge Da, 166
Solis, Isabel de, 167
Solis, Jacob da Silva, 167-68
Solis, Mrs. Jacob da Silva (Charity
Hays), 167, 168
Solis, Joseph, 168
Solis, Joseph Da Silva, 167
Solis, Judith, see Cohen, Mrs. Myer
David
Solis, Solomon da Silva, 167
Solis-Cohen (family), 21, 169
Souza, Victor, 123
Spain: Castilian language, 37
Crusades, 35, 39, 41
Inquisition, 24, 27, 31, 46, 47-48,
51, 72-84
auto-da-fe, 75, 76-78, 81, 82, 85
sanbenito, 7B-79
scourging, 77, 78
see also Sephardim, Expulsion
Edict below
Latin language, 37
Moors, see Moors
Sephardim, 14, 24, 30-50, 292-93,
294
anti-Semitism, 35, 36, 39-42 passim,
44, 45, 72-73; see also
Inquisition above
Anusim see Conversos; Marranos
below
astronomy and navigation, interest
in, 35, 36, 48
Conversos (Catholic converts;
New Christians), 40-41, 42,
44, 45, 46, 49, 74-76, 80, 82-
83; see also Marranos below
Expulsion Edict, 47-51 passim,
73, 283, 284, 292-93, 294
in finance, 32, 35, 39, 43, 48,
74, 75
identification badge and dress,
38-39, 42, 77-79
Ladino language (Judea-Spanish),
37, 284
limpieza doctrine, 75
Marranos, 40, 49, 75-76, 83-84,
283; see also Conversos above
as merchants, 35, 37
and Moors, 34-35, 36, 37, 39,
41, 47
as physicians, 35, 39, 45, 74
protection by the Crown, 36, 41
right to wear arms, 37-38
as scholars, 35, 36
taxes, 32-33
Spencer, William A., 198, 199
Starin, Mrs. Jeffrey, 92
Stern, Jacob, 15
Stem, Malcolm H.: Americans of Jewish
Descent, 13-19, 166, 167,
170, 204, 282
Stevenson (family), 16
Stewart, Comm. Charles, 191>-91, 219
Stiles, Ezra, 97, 117-18, 133
Stringham, Comm. Silas, 218
Stuart, Gilbert, 175
Stuyvesant, Peter, 61-62, 64-68 passim,
300
Suffolk, Charles Brandon, Duke of,
276 Sully, Thomas, 150, 159, 161-6.2, 189
Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 127n
Susan, Diego de, 76
Susman, Moses, 69
Talavera, Fray Hernando de, 44
Taylor (family), 162
Ten Eyck (family), 16
Thompson, Comm. Edward, 192
Tiffany (family), 16
Tobias (family), 18, .2.27
Tobias, Amelia Barnard, see Lazarus,
Mrs. Jacob Hart
Tobias, Fanny, see Hendricks, Mrs.
Uriah
Tobias, Florian, .227
Tobias, Harriet, see Hendricks, Mrs.
Henry
Tobias, Henry, 227
Tobias, Mrs. Henry (Roselane Hendricks),
177, 227
Tobias, Isaac, 2.27
Tobias, Mrs. Isaac (Hermoine Hendricks),
227
Tobias, Alfred, 227
Tobias, Sophia, 232
Tobias, Tobias I., 227, 229
Toledo (Spain): center of astronomical
learning, 36
Sephardim, 24, 33, 42, 76, 83
Torquemada, Tomas de, 79-80, 81
Touro (family), 127, 13.2
Touro, Isaac, 126-.27
Touro, John, 131
Touro, Judah, 126-32 passim, 143,
159, 178, 201
Townsend, Joseph, 83
Tracy, Kate, 258
Turkey: Sephardim, 14, 50, 52, 284-
88, 289
see also Sephardim, Levantine Sephardim
Tuttle, Bishop, 163
Tweed, "Boss" William, .253-54
Tyler, John, 213, 214
Van Cortlandt (family), 95
Vanderbilt (family), 16, 235
Vanderpoel, Aaron, 219
Van Horn, Cornelia, 157
Van Rensselaer (family), 16, 95, 229
Van Rensselaer, Gratz, 159-60
Verplanck (family), 147
Vincent Ferrer, Saint, 42
Von Mayhoff, Mrs. Amelia Levy, .299
Waag, Rachel, 175
Wallace (family), 16
Walling, George, 248-49
Warburg (family), 15
Washington, George, .21, 132, 133,
138, 140, 141, 153, 163, 164-
65, 179
Wayne, Gen. Anthony, 152-53
Weaver, Lt. William, 197, 198
Weed, Ella, 273
Wharton, Edith, .231, 238
Wharton, Joseph, 151
Whichcote, Sir Thomas, 158
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 221
Wilson, Ellen, 131
Wilson, James, 138
Wolff (family), 229
Wolff, Agnes Hendricks, .230
Wolff, Frances Nathan, 18
Woortman, Henrick, 103-4, 105
yellow, as color of cowardice: in identification
badges and dress, 38,
42, 78, 301
Yiddish language, 20.2
Zacuto, Abraham ben, 48
zekhut avat (ancestral merit), 20
Zuntz (family), 13
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