a Portuguese Jew, who died in 1680, was among those who, in 1641, emigrated from Portugal to Brazil. On his return to Amsterdam, he published a Portuguese and Hebrew grammar, entitled Epitome da Grammatica Hebraica (Amst. 1661). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. i, 21; De' Rossi, Dizionario Storico (Germ. transl.), p. 28; Lindo, Hist. of the Jews in Spain, p. 369; Etheridge, Introd. to Hebrew Literature, p. 467; Steinschneider, Bibliog. Handbuch, No. 19; Keyserling, Gesch. d. Juden in Portugqal, p. 294; id. in Frankel's Monatsschrift, 1860, p. 397 sq.; Jost, Gesch. d. Judenth. u s. Sekten, iii, 198, 232; Dessaur, Gesch. d. Israeliten, p. 453, 457. (B. P.)