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Dec 29, 2023 · "To know the massacre of 1506 in Lisbon is to know the events of October 7, 2023 in Israel and the historic massacres perpetrated against the Jewish people throughout Europe. The only change is ...
Jun 15, 1976 · In this landmark study, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi presents the Lisbon Massacre as one chapter in the history of alliances between Jews and the powers that have ruled over them. Through an exploration of Jewish attitudes and their consequences at this important juncture in Jewish history, he uncovers the “myth of the royal alliance” in the ...
- Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Memorial to the Victims of the 1506 Massacre, LisbonInaugurated as part of the 500th anniversary of the event, the Memorial to the Victims of the 1506 Massacre is located on the site where it took place, in the square in front of Igreja de São Domingos (St. Dominic Church), in Lisbon. It was created in 2008 by Graça Bachmann, on a proposal ...
On Sunday 19 April 1506, the city of Lisbon was convulsed by an explosion of bloodshed that lasted four days and is estimated to have resulted in the violent deaths of anywhere between 1,000 to 4,000 men, women and children. The victims were the so-called “New Christians”, the Portuguese Jews forced to convert to Christianity by King Manuel ...
Apr 11, 2018 · More Details. The Lisbon Jewish Memorial stands on the corner of Rossio Square with Sao Domingos Church, in central downtown, inaugurated in 2008 in memory of the Jewish Massacre of 1506 that happenned here in this square. It is estimated that between 2,000 and 4,000 Jews who had been forced to convert were killed here on this event 500 years ago.
Aug 8, 2017 · This memorial to the victims of the 1506 Jewish Massacre was erected on April 19, 2006—the 500th anniversary (Hebrew years 5266–5766) of what is also known as “Lisbon Massacre,” “Lisbon Pogrom,” or “The 1506 Easter Slaughter.”
- Largo de Sao Domingos, Lisbon 1150-320,, Portugal
The victims were the so-called “New Christians”, the Portuguese Jews forced to convert to Christianity by King Manuel I in 1497. The massacre of 1506 sent shockwaves throughout Europe and accounts of it exist in Portuguese, Jewish, Spanish and German sources. An anonymous German, who was present in Lisbon at the time of the massacre and ...
