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Saul Levi Morteira or Mortera (c. 1596 – 10 February 1660) was a rabbi in Amsterdam. He wa born in Venice, so he was neither a Sephardic or Ashkenazic Jew. He became a prominent figure in the city's community of exiled Portuguese Jews. His polemical writings against Catholicism had wide circulation.
Saúl Levi Morteira nació en el seno de la comunidad sefardita de Venecia en 1596. Amante de los viajes y del conocimiento intelectual viaja a París en 1612 junto a su discípulo y amigo Elías Rodrigues de Montalto, médico de María de Médicis. Murió en 1660, siendo embalsamado y sepultado en Ámsterdam, según su deseo.
Death: February 07, 1660 (63-64) Amsterdam. Place of Burial: Beth Haim of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Amsterdam, Government of Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands. Immediate Family: Husband of Esther Levite Mortera and Esther Morteira.
MORTEIRA (MORTERA), SAUL LEVI: By: Gotthard Deutsch, S. Mannheimer. Dutch rabbi of Portuguese descent; born about 1596 at Venice; died at Amsterdam Feb. 10, 1660. In a Spanish poem Daniel Levi de Barrios speaks of him as being a native of Germany ("de Alemania natural").
MORTEIRA, SAUL LEVI (c. 1596–1660), rabbi and scholar in Amsterdam. Morteira was born in Venice and studied there under Leone *Modena. In 1611 he accompanied the physician Elijah Montalto to Paris, and on the latter's death in 1616 brought his body for burial to Amsterdam, where he himself subsequently settled.
21. Juli 2019 · Saul Levi Morteira (sometimes spelled “Mortera”), who one day would become the leader of the Sephardic community in Amsterdam, was not himself Sephardic. He was born in Venice to and spent time in Paris before winding his way up to Amsterdam in 1616, where he was eagerly received by the newly founded Nação Portuguesa.
Exile in Amsterdam is based on a rich, extensive, and previously untapped source for one of the most important and fascinating Jewish communities in early modern Europe: the sermons of Saul Levi Morteira (ca. 1596-1660). Morteira, the leading rabbi of Amsterdam and a master of Jewish homiletical art, was known to have published only one book of ...
