Talk:Judah Touro

Portuguese origin clarified
The article calls Judah's father, Isaac, a "rabbi of Portuguese origin." The Touro Synagogue article and that synagogue's own web site both assert that Isaac came to Rhode Island by way of the Netherlands. A Jewish Encyclopedia article says he came by way of Jamaica. The name "Isaac de Touro" suggests that he was born either in Touro, Spain or in the freguesia of Touro, a parish within the municipality of Vila Nova de Paiva, Portugal. Apparently, tradition favors the latter. --Larry Tesler 15:58, 8 October 2006 (UTC)


 * The "Spanish-Portuguese" Jewish community is composed of Jews who fled from Portugal to Amsterdam in the 17th Century, after the Netherlands became independent. Members of this community then settled in the UK, and later spread through the Dutch and British possessions in the Americas.  Isaac Touro was a "Portuguese Jew", but had never actually seen Portugal.  If I understand correctly (and I may be mistaken), he was born in Jamaica, went to the Netherlands to be educated, and then came to Newport.  Zsero 01:55, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

"Old Yishuv" window does not belong here.
"Old Yishuv" window does not belong here. KKMI1740 (talk) 15:39, 9 December 2021 (UTC)