No. 8870
Abraham Israel Pereyra
d. 1699Merchant and writerEurope · 1699Most named place: Amsterdam
Abraham Israel Pereyra was a wealthy and prominent Jewish Spanish merchant, who lived in Amsterdam from circa 1644 to his death in 1699. He was born at Madrid, went to Venice to escape the persecution of the Inquisition, and thence to Amsterdam.
Pereyra was highly esteemed for his wealth and culture, and for several years was president of the Spanish-Portuguese community in Amsterdam. He donated 46,000 gulden to the Talmud Torah at Amsterdam, and founded the Talmudic seminary at Hebron. Several of his works were published during his life.
