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The re-creation of a kahal (or kehillah) in the London of the mid-seventeenth century forms part of the turbulence that assailed the economy of the Dutch Sephardim. From the Americas to the Mediterranean, a complex interplay of disparate factors created a serious threat to its wellbeing. In Brazil the successful revolt of the Portuguese planters against Dutch rule, in 1645–54, put an end to the prosperity of the Sephardi colonies in Recife and Mauricia. During this decade c.200 families from Brazil, many impoverished, had to find refuge in the Dutch Republic. In 1645 the outbreak of prolonged warfare (until 1669), between Venice and the Ottoman Empire, undermined Venetian Sephardi commerce with the Levant, both by sea and overland to Constantinople and Salonika. In a different sense the intensified persecution of the New Christians in Spain and the financial collapse in Madrid — both events of the 1640s — led to further mass emigration from the Iberian peninsula. This not only increased the population pressure on existing Sephardi settlements in the west (Amsterdam, Livorno, Hamburg), but also strengthened these settlements, for the newcomers included men of financial stature and outstanding intellect.
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Resettlement in London
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Kochan, L. (2004). Resettlement in London. In: The Making of Western Jewry, 1600–1819. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230800021_5
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