Jacob Tirado
Jacob Tirado · Converts to Judaism
Co-founder, with fellow Portuguese conversos, of the Sephardic community of Amsterdam at the end of the sixteenth century; returned openly to Judaism
vers 1540, Portugal — 1620, Jérusalem
Portugal, Amsterdam et Jérusalem
Jacob Tirado is recognized among Jewish contributors to Converts to Judaism — Co-founder, with fellow Portuguese conversos, of the Sephardic community of Amsterdam at the end of the sixteenth century; returned openly to Judaism
Jacob Tirado sailed from Portugal with a group of Marranos — Jews forced into Christianity who kept their faith in secret — on a ship blown off course to Emden in East Frisia; on the advice of Rabbi Moses Uri ha-Levi he and his companions went on to Amsterdam about 1593. There he professed Judaism openly and, although already an old man, underwent circumcision. With Jacob Israel Belmonte and Samuel Pallache he founded the Spanish and Portuguese community of Amsterdam and served as its first president; he bought a house on the Houtgracht and turned it into the city's first synagogue, named after him Bet Ya'akob, consecrated at the Jewish New Year of September 1597.
Every year on Yom Kippur the community said a special prayer for him in acknowledgement of what he had done for it. In old age he travelled to Jerusalem, where he died.
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Co-founder, with fellow Portuguese conversos, of the Sephardic community of Amsterdam at the end of the sixteenth century; returned openly to Judaism
Source: Wikipedia — Jacob Tirado
