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JewishEncyclopedia.com - ABENDANA (325 words) |
 | The children born of this marriage died, and, their death being attributed by his wife to the fact that he had not been received into the Covenant of Abraham, they separated until that rite was performed. |
| He took the name David Abendana, and was one of the founders of the first synagogue in Amsterdam. |
| A brother of Jacob and Isaac Abendana, and author of an apologetic work dedicated to Isaac Levi Ximenes, bearing the title, "Respuesta á las Proposiciones de uno que Siendo de la Nacion Judaica por se Mostrar tan Católico Cristiano" (Manuscript in the Stadtbibliothek at Hamburg). |
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| Jacob was eldest the son of Joseph Abendana and had a brother, Isaac Abendana. |
| Abendana responded with a Spanish translation of Rabbi Judah Halevi's Kuzari in 1663. |
| Jacob Abendana died childless in London in 1695 and was buried in the Portuguese cemetery at Mile End. |
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