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Hannah, married in 1800 Isaac da Costa, the author of "Israel and the Gentiles." Two of the children of Bartholomeu Sampayo Belmonte returned to the Jewish faith in 1604; Aurelio (b. 1558) taking the name Joseph, and Guido (b. 1560), that of Emmanuel. From Aurelio are descended the Ergas Belmontes, Pereyra Belmontes, Brandao Belmontes, Sarfatino Belmontes, and the Abendana Belmontes. The Abendana Belmontes emigrated to Hamburg; a number of the

succeeded in 1706 as resident of the king of Spain in the Netherlands. The office of resident was abolished when the Bourbons ascended the Spanish throne.

Bibliography: ResolutiXn van Holland, Jan. 15, 1706; Koenen, Geschiedenis der Joden in Nederland, p. 207 Da Costa, Israel en de Vollien, 2d ed., pp. 287, 431. D. G.

BELMONTE, ISAAC NUNEZ ('tDJIob D'JIJ): One

of the most prominent of Oriental casuists son of Moses Nunez Belmonte lived in Smyrna at the end of the eighteenth century, and at the beginning

tombstones of this family can still be seen in

the

Jewish

of the nineteenth. He published a commentary upon the first and second parts of Maimonides' Mishnah

Portuguesecemetery

at

Torah under the

title "Sha'ar ha-Melek" (The King's Gate), Salonica, 1771; 2d ed., with notes by Baruch ben Jonah Jeiteles, Briinn, 1801-3; 3d ed., with notes by Joseph Saul Nathanson, Lemberg, 1859 (the work is one of the most important productions of Oriental casuistry, and was introduced into Germany and Poland by Jeiteles in the second edition); "Derek ha-Sha'ar" (The Gateway), an oration contained in Raphael (Isaac) Maggio's "Darke

Altona. Guido was the ancestor of the Xi-

menes Belmontes. His grandchildren were probably Don Andree de Belmonte and Baron Manuel de Belmonte, Arms

of the

Belmonte Family.





both agents of the Spanish crown in the

Netherlands. Their Rachel, married Diego Ximenes, whose granddaughter was the wife of Moses Solomon Curiel. The granddaughter of the latter, Esther Franco Mendes, married Jacob Belmonte mentioned above. second branch of the same family in Amsterdam takes its rise with Jacob Belmonte, who came He to that city in 1620 from the island of Madeira. was one of the founders of the Portuguese community in Amsterdam, and his descendants intermarried with the Queridos, da Fonsecas, Pereyras, etc. Descendants of the Belmonte family still live in sister,

ha- Yam," Salonica, 1813. Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, ii. 68b, Vienna, Steinsctmeider, Cat. Bod!. Nos. 5404, 6800 Roest, Cat. der Rosenthal' sehen Biblintheh, i. 909; Benjacob, Ozar haSefarim, p. 600, No. 1014 Zedner, Cat. Hear. Books British

Bibliography 1864

The accompanying in Hamburg. two sketch-pedigrees show the relationship of the principal members of the family. G.





Museum,

pp. 515, 617.

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BELMONTE, ISAAC

NTjSfEZ (Don Manuel de) Dutch statesman born in Amsterdam died He was not a son of Jacob Belthere in 1704. monte who came from Madeira in 1614, as no mention is made of a son Isaac in the records of the Portuguese community at Amsterdam. From the year 1664 he was agent general, and from 1674 resident He was of the king of Spain to the Netherlands. created " Comes Palatums " in 1693 by the German emperor, and did much to conserve friendly rela:





between Spain and the Netherlands. His correspondence with the Spanish government between the years 1667 and 1691 is preserved in the Biblioteca Nacional at Madrid (MS. cc. 50, Nos. 899 and

tions

BELMONTE,

B. E. COLACO: Lawyer and writer in Surinam, Dutch "West Indies, about the middle of the eighteenth century. He published " Over de Hervorming van het Regeringostelsel in Nederlandsch West-Indie " (Leyden, 1857) " Werkzaamheden der Surinamsche Maatschapij van Weldadigheid " (Paramaribo, 1858); "Neerlands West-Indie in z. belangen en Dr. W. R. v. Hoevell in zijn 'Slaven en Vrijen'" (Leyden, 1855).

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BELMONTE, BENVENIDA COHEN:

Kayserling, Sephardim, p. 251 idem, BibliJewisli oteca JSspafi.-Portug.-fudaica, p. 55: idem. in Quarterly Review, xii. 715 ; idem, Jildische Frauen,j>. 174 Koenen, Geschiedenis der Jodenin Nederland, p. 29i.

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Amsterdam during the He was a century. first half of the eighteenth nephew of Baron Manuel de Belmonte, whom he Dutch diplomat;

lived at

Nunez was of a literary turn of mind. He wrote a poem on the martyr Abraham Nunez Beknal in 1676 he founded the poetic academy Los Sitibundos, and in 1685 the Academia de los Floridos. In 1683 De Barrios dedicated to him and others his " Triumpho del Govierno Popular " in 1689 David Pardo, his " Compendio de Dinim " (see " Catalogue de feu M. Isaac da Costa," No. 2306); and in 1693 Isabelle de Correa, her translation of Babtiste Guarini's Italian pastoral " Pastor Fido" (De los Rios, sur les Juifs d'Espagne," p. 585). "Etudes The beautifully carved tombstone of Isaac Nunez Oudekerk near is still to be seen in the cemetery at Amsterdam. It is probable that his son was the Baron de Belmont who in 1700 addressed a memorial conto Sir William Beeston, governor of Jamaica, cerning the extraordinary tax^s levied upon the Jews of that island ("Proc. Amer. Jew. Hist. Soc." Quart. Rev." xii. 712). ii. 165; Kayserling, in "Jew.



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lived in London at the beginning of the eighteenth century. She was a sister of the Maecenas Mordecai Nunez Almeyda, and was among those who sang the praise of Lopez Laguna's "Espejo She also wrote a Fiel de Vidas " (London, 1720). poem in honor of Samuel Nassy of Surinam. etess

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Bibliography: ResolutiSn van Holland,

12 Aug., 26 Sept., 22 Dec, 1673: 9 March, 25 April, 1679: Koenen, 20! Da Costa, Geschiedenis der Joden in Nederland, pp. 184, Kayserling, Israel en de Volken, 2d ed., pp. 287, 431, 524 ;

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