Abraham Farrar
Abraham Farrar · Historical & Religious Figures
Physician and poet, president of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam (1639)
Porto, Portugal (date inconnue) — 1663, Amsterdam, Provinces-Unies (Pays-Bas)
Porto, Lisbonne, Amsterdam
Abraham Farrar is recognized among Jewish contributors to Historical & Religious Figures — Physician and poet, president of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam (1639)
Origins and early life
Abraham Farrar was born in Porto, in Portugal, into the world of the New Christians — the forcibly converted Jews of Portugal — and practiced medicine in Lisbon before making the journey so many of his generation made, to Amsterdam, where Judaism could again be lived in the open; his uncle Jacob Tirado had founded there Beth Jacob, the first Portuguese congregation of the city.
Work and career
Farrar called himself, in his own words, a Jew of the Portuguese exile. A physician and a poet, he wrote in Portuguese a treatise on the six hundred and thirteen commandments of the Law, published in 1627 to re-teach Judaism to former conversos returning to it. His friend Menasseh ben Israel dedicated to him his Thesouro dos Dinim, and a Hanukkah lamp Farrar donated around 1629-30 is kept to this day in the Jewish Museum of Amsterdam.
In 1639, when the city's three Portuguese congregations merged into one community, he served as its president. He died in Amsterdam in 1663.
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Physician and poet, president of the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam (1639)
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