Jean-Léon Cardozo de Béthencourt
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Country
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FR
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Name of institution (English)
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Bordeaux Municipal Archives
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Language of name of institution
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fra
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Contact information: postal address
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Parvis des Archives, 33100, Bordeaux
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Contact information: phone number
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0033 (0)556102055
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Contact information: email
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archives@bordeaux-metropole.fr
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Reference number
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Bordeaux 79 S
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (English)
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Jean-Léon Cardozo de Béthencourt
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Title (official language of the state)
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Jean-Léon Cardozo de Béthencourt
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Language of title
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fra
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Creator / accumulator
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Jean-Léon Cardozo de Béthencourt
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Date(s)
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1861/1938
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Language(s)
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por
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Extent
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107 storage units
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Scope and content
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This fonds comprises documentation collected by Jean-Léon Cardozo de Béthencourt (1861-1938) as part of his scholarly work on local history, genealogy and the history of Judaism in France. For this reason, Béthencourt's manuscript notes contain relevant information on Sephardic families living in Bordeaux and Amsterdam. The fonds includes annotations, abstracts and transcriptions of primary sources.
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Archival history
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The fonds was delivered to the Archives Bordeaux Métropole in 1938.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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Jean-Léon Cardozo de Béthencourt was born in Nantes on December 15, 1861. He was the librarian of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (Lisbon Academy of Sciences) before moving to Bordeaux, where he became interested in local history. He was a great scholar, bibliophile, genealogist, and Hebraist, whose research work on the Jewish community of Bordeaux was published in the Revue historique de Bordeaux and the Revue des études juives. He died in Bordeaux on December 7, 1938.
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(source: Archives Bordeaux Métropole website)
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Author of the description
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Kevin Soares, 2023
