Manuela Nuñez de Almeida

Manuela Nuñez de Almeida was an eighteenth-century British Jewish poet.

Biography

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 [es].[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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.

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