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Silveyra (Silveira), Abraham (Diego) Gomes
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
Poet and preacher; long resident in various French and Dutch towns, finally settling at Amsterdam. He was a member of the Academy of Poets founded by D. Manuel de Belmonte in 1676, and was the author of a collection of "Sermones" containing six homilies on various texts of the Bible and a funeral oration on Rachel de Pinto. His "Entretenimientos Gustosos o Dialogos Burlescos Entre un Judio, Turco, Reformado y Catolico" and his "Dissertaciones Sobre el Mesias," which he translated from the French, are extant in manuscript.
Bibliography:- Kayserling, Bibl. Esp.-Port.,-Jud. pp. 102 et seq.;
- Catalogue de . . . Feu M. D. Henriques de Castro, p. 58, Amsterdam, n.d.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Silveyra (Silveira), Abraham (Diego) Gomes'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/s/silveyra-silveira-abraham-diego-gomes.html. 1901.