[1628]

Samuel Caceres, de

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First name
Samuel
Last name
Caceres, de
Date of Birth
[1628]
Date of Death
1660
Born in
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Died in
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Samuel (Saul) de Caceres (Carceris, Casseres, Caçeres) studied under the supervision of Haham Samuel Levi Morteira.  He delivered the eulogy at Morteira’s funeral (Bodian, 1999, esp. p. 165). Samuel was a sopher (i.e. a scribe, notary, also someone who tought children the Jewish Bible) who worked for Beth Jacob. He was a librarian of the society Ets Haim (‘Tree of Life’), and edited, revised, and corrected a Spanish translation of the Ferrara Bible (published posthumously in 1661). He married in second wedlock Spinoza’s other sister, Rebecca (NNBW, vol. 6, cols 249–50; Dialogo dos Montes, 1975, p. xviii). A manuscript, Sete derasiot (1644), containing sermons by Morteira in Midrashic (an approach to understanding biblical texts in Judaism) with ink drawings is preserved in: University of California, Los Angeles, UL, Special Collections, Young Research Library, Bound Manuscripts Collection (1977), ms. 170/107. Another text, ‘Dialogo dos Montes’ (1646), known to have been both copied and illustrated by De Caceres, survives in: London, BL, ms. Add 27231. See: Dialogo dos Montes, 1975, pp. xiii and xvii.

Relationships

Michael Espinosa, d'

Business partner

Hanna Idanha

Daughter

Daniel Casseres, de

Father

Mirjam Espinosa, d'

First Wife

Rebecca Spinoza, de

Second Wife

Benjamin Caceres, de

Son

Michael Caceres, de

Son

Samuel Levi Morteira

Student