Archief van Isaac Sigala

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Country: NL
Name of institution (English): Amsterdam City Archives
Name of institution (official language of the state): Stadsarchief Amsterdam
Language of name of institution: dut
Contact information: postal address: Vijzelstraat 32, 1017 HL Amsterdam
Contact information: phone number: 0031 202511511
Contact information: web address: https://www.amsterdam.nl/stadsarchief
Contact information: email: stadarchief@amsterdam.nl
Reference number: 193
Type of reference number: Archival reference number
Title (English): Archive of Isaac Sigala
Title (official language of the state): Archief van Isaac Sigala
Language of title: dut
Creator / accumulator: Isaac Sigala
Date(s): 1737/1793
Language(s): dut; por; spa
Extent: 1 storage unit
Type of material: Textual Material
Physical condition: Good
Scope and content: This collection consists of a copybook of letters from Isaac Sigala, a bookkeeper in Amsterdam, mainly addressed to his brother Sabetay Sigala, who lived in Surinam. The letters were written between 1737 and 1793. Other Sephardim to whom Sigala's letters are addressed are Isaac Veiga Henriques; Mordechay and IsaacTalano from The Hague; David Cohen Delmonte, Isaac de Lemos Junior and Jacob Gonzales Monsanto from Hamburg; David and Jacob Abendaya Namias from Altona; Imanuel da Costa Gomes, Jacob Jessurun de Oliveyra and Ishac de Sola from Curaçao; his sister-in-law Ribca and his nephews David Haim Sigala, Mordechai Haim Sigala, David Haim Brandon, Daniel Mendonza and Abraham Abenatar Junior. These letters to Sephardim are written in Portuguese. The rest of the correspondence is tendentially in Dutch.
Administrative / Biographical history: Isaac Sigala (d. 1793) was a Sephardic Jew who worked as a bookkeeper in Amsterdam. In 1759, he bought a house and yard between Amstel and Muidergracht near the Oudevrouwenhuis. He disposed of it in 1780. Isaac and his brother Sabetay were sons of Mordechay Sigala (d. 1750). Sabetay lived in Suriname and left a widow there, Ribca de Mercado Bom Rey.; (source: Inventaris van het Archief van Isaac Sigala)
Access points: locations: Altona (Germany); Amsterdam (Netherlands); Curaçao; Hamburg (Germany); Surinam; The Hague (Netherlands)
Access points: persons, families: Abenatar Junior, Abraham; Abendaya Namias, David; Abendaya Namias, Jacob; Brandon, David Haim; Cohen Delmonte, David; Costa Gomes, Imanuel da; Gonzales Monsanto, Jacob; Jessurun de Oliveyra, Jacob; Lemos Junior, Isaac de; Mendonza, Daniel; Mercado Bom Rey, Ribca de; Sigala, David Haim; Sigala, Mordechai Haim; Sigala, Isaac; Sigala, Sabetay; Sola, Ishac; Talano, Isaac; Talano, Mordechay; Veiga Henriques, Isaac
Access points: subject terms: Sephardim in the Netherlands; Sephardim in the West Indies; Trade and commerce; 18th century
Access points: document types: Commercial correspondence; Personal correspondence
Access, restrictions: A digital copy of the volume that composes this collection is available online:; Archief van Isaac Sigala
Links to finding aids: Inventaris van het Archief van Isaac Sigala
Author of the description: Joana Rodrigues and Carla Vieira, 2022

Item sets: WSD Roadmap; WSD Roadmap finais; WSD Roadmap Belgium and Netherlands

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