Manuela Nuñez de Almeida
Manuela Nuñez de Almeida was an eighteenth-century British Jewish poet.
Biography
[edit]She was born in London into a family of Sephardic origin. She was the matriarch of a learned family, whose members formed part of a literary circle surrounding Haham David Nieto.[1] Her son Mordecai Nuñez de Almeida was the patron of the Spanish poet Daniel Israel López Laguna.[2] Together with her two daughters, Benvenida Cohen Belmonte and Sara de Fonseca Pina y Pimentel, wife of Manuel Fonseca Pina, she wrote Spanish verses prefacing Laguna's work.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Rubinstein, William D.; Jolles, Michael A.; Rubinstein, Hillary L., eds. (2011). "Nunez de Almeida Family". The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 727. ISBN 978-0-230-30466-6. OCLC 793104984.
- ^ Hyamson, Albert M. (1951). The Sephardim of England: A History of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community, 1492-1951. London: Methuen & Co. ISBN 9781000043846. OCLC 970844278.
- ^ Kayserling, Meyer (July 1900). "The Jews in Jamaica and Daniel Israel Lopez Laguna". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 12 (4): 708–717. doi:10.2307/1450701. JSTOR 1450701.
Attribution
[edit]This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jacobs, Joseph; Kayserling, Meyer (1905). "Nunes da Almeyda, Manuela". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 357.
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