400 years after Portugals Inquisition, theres a Sephardic family reunion - the da Costa family - in Amsterdam, spearheaded by Marina da Costa, an animated Surinamese Jewish woman who has become a passionate researcher of her family’s history ......Yet this was no typical family. The da Costas are descendants of four Portuguese Jewish brothers (Abraham, Uriel, Joseph and Mordecai who, with their mother, fled the Inquisition in Portugal in 1614 and made their way to Amsterdam in order to live openly as Jews). The dinner culminated a full day of activities to commemorate that event. The reunion brought together 55 family members, ranging in age from 4 to 70. And yet, ironically, very few of the da Costas who gathered there — coming from all over the Netherlands and Suriname, the former Dutch colony in South America — were Jewish themselves. Read more at The Forward: forward/articles/199161/-years-after-portugal-s-inquisition-a-very-un/
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