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Pallache " – also de Palacio(s) , Palache , Palaçi , Palachi , Palacci , Palaggi , al-Fallashi , and many other variations (documented below) – is the surname of a prominent, Ladino -speaking, Sephardic Jewish family from the Iberian Peninsula , who spread mostly through the Mediterranean after the Alhambra Decree of March 31, 1492, and related events.1The Pallache family have had connections with Moroccans, Spanish, Netherlands and Portuguese Sephardic Jewish communities, as detailed below.2 The Pallaches established themselves in cities in Morocco, the Netherlands, Turkey, Egypt, and other countries from the 1500s through the 1900s. The family includes chief rabbis , rabbis , founders of synagogues and batei midrash , scientists, entrepreneurs, writers, and others. Best known to date are: Moroccan envoys and brothers Samuel Pallache (ca. 1550–1616) and Joseph Pallache , at least three grand rabbis of Izmir – Gaon .3 Haim Palachi (1788–1868), his sons Abraham Palacci (1809–1899) and Rahamim Nissim Palacci (1814–1907), grand rabbi of Amsterdam Isaac Juda Palache (1858–1927), American mineralogist Charles Palache (1869–1954), and Dutch linguist Juda Lion Palache (1886–1944). García-Arenal, Mercedes (2010), "Pallache Family (Moroccan Branch)" , in Stillman, Norman A. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World , vol. 4, Brill Lewental, D Gershon (2010), "Pallache Family (Turkish Branch)" , in Stillman, Norman A. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World , vol. 4, Brill Ben Naeh, Yaron (2010), "Pallache, Ḥayyim" , in Stillman, Norman A. There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).
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" Pallache " – also de Palacio(s) , Palache , Palaçi , Palachi , Palacci , Palaggi , and many other variations (documented below) – is the surname of a prominent, Ladino -speaking, Sephardic Jewish family from the Iberian Peninsula , who spread mostly through the Mediterranean after the Alhambra Decree of March 31, 1492, and related events. (This entry uses "Pallache" as an unifying name, based on scholarly preference, particularly three (3) entries for "Pallache" in Brill's Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World and the scholarly historical biography A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe . ) The Pallache have had connections with both Portuguese and Spanish Sephardic communities, as detailed below. The Pallache established themselves in cities in Portugal (?), Morocco, the Netherlands, Turkey, Egypt, and other countries from the 1500s through the 1900s. The family includes Chief Rabbis , rabbis , founders of synagogues and batei midrash , scientists, entrepreneurs, writers, and others. Best known to date are: Moroccan envoys and brothers Samuel Pallache (ca. 1550–1616) and Joseph Pallache , at least three grand rabbis of Izmir – Gaon . Haim Palachi (1788–1868), his sons Abraham Palacci (1809–1899) and Rahamim Nissim Palacci (1814–1907), grand rabbi of Amsterdam Isaac Juda Palache (1858-1927), American mineralogist Charles Palache (1869–1954), and Dutch linguist Juda Lion Palache (1886–1944). García-Arenal, Mercedes (2010), "Pallache Family (Moroccan Branch)" , in Stillman, Norman A. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World , vol. 4, Brill Lewental, D Gershon (2010), "Pallache Family (Turkish Branch)" , in Stillman, Norman A. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World , vol. 4, Brill Ben Naeh, Yaron (2010), "Pallache, Ḥayyim" , in Stillman, Norman A.
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Sephardic family from Spain Pallache , also de Palacio(s) , Palache , Palaçi , Palachi , Palatsi , Palacci , Palaggi , al-Fallashi , and many other variations, is a prominent, Ladino -speaking Sephardic Jewish family from the Iberian Peninsula , who spread mostly through the Mediterranean after the Alhambra Decree of March 31, 1492, and related events. The Pallaches established themselves in cities in Morocco, the Netherlands, Turkey, Egypt, and other countries from the 1500s through the 1900s. The family includes Chief Rabbis , rabbis , founders of synagogues and batei midrash , scientists, entrepreneurs, writers, and others. Best known are Moroccan envoys and brothers Samuel Pallache ( c. 1550 –1616) and Joseph Pallache , at least three grand rabbis of Izmir – Gaon . Haim Palachi (1788–1868), his sons Abraham Palacci (1809–1899) and Rahamim Nissim Palacci (1814–1907), grand rabbi of Amsterdam Isaac Juda Palache (1858–1927), American mineralogist Charles Palache (1869–1954), and Dutch linguist Juda Lion Palache (1886–1944). García-Arenal, Mercedes (2010), "Pallache Family (Moroccan Branch)" , in Stillman, Norman A. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World , vol. 4, Brill Lewental, D Gershon (2010), "Pallache Family (Turkish Branch)" , in Stillman, Norman A. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World , vol. 4, Brill Ben Naeh, Yaron (2010), "Pallache, Ḥayyim" , in Stillman, Norman A. There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).
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