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91 America“, published in the Pablications of the American Jewish Historical Society, no. 3, 1895, pp. 13—20. One of the early Jewish pioneers of Texas was Jacob de Cordova; merchant, printer, author and editor, born in Jamaica in 1808, died in Texas, 1868. ,See Henry Cohen’s ״The Jews in Texas“, in the Pablications [= PAJHS.], no. 4, 1896, pp. 9—15. — Itis interesting to state in this Connection that a brother of the famous Amsterdam printer David de Castro Tartas, .who lived in ßrazil was seized by the spies of the Inquisition, and transported to Lisbon, where he died at the stäke in 1647 with the שסע ישראל on bis lips. ־ A full account of his martyrdom is given in my Jewish Martyrs of the Inquisition in South America, printed in PAJHS., vol. IV, 1896, pp. 130—4; 166—71. 2) Fundam, Isaac, printer in Amsterdam, who seems to have published more Spanish than Hebrew books. His works are enumerated by Wolf in Bibi. Hebr., vol. III, pp. 537, 551, 611, 1204; Steinscheiger, Jiid. Typogr., p. 67; Catal. Bodl., 2889— 90; Zunz, Zur Geschichte, p. 246; Keyserling, Bibi. Espafi.- Port.-Jud, XVIII, 47- 8,62. (Steinschneiders reference in Jüd. Typogr., p. 67, note 49, to Wolf, III, p. 707 is incorrect.) Fundam Claims to be the author of a work published1 in Mexico, entidled: Varios y honestos entretenimientos apasibles, que di a luz Don Alonso de Castillo, Solorzano en Mexico. Mexico (Amsterdam) 1723, — 126 pp. octavo. Wolf adds the following note, III, no. 1259 b: ״Libellus cogitatis ingeniosis refertus, in titulo fingitur Mexici lucem vidisse“, cf. Fuerst, Bibi. Judaica, I, 306• — He mentions in vol. IV, p. 870, no. 1095b, the polemik Dutch work of an apostate, Jacob Fundam (Stein- Schneider, Cat. Bodl., 2890, has David), in defense of Christianity, issued at Amsterdam, 1726; it is unknown to Kayserling. Vide Eiirst, 1. c. ‘ 3) Steinschneider thought it curious that Polish Jews should hare written their petition to Archhishop Lubinski in Spanish and that the pamphlet should hare been reprinted at Madrid, Mexico and Cadiz (cf. HB. IX, 148; Zf HB. IV, 57). If the sorry plight of the Polish Jews in 1759 did in no wise interest Spain (״dieser ganze Vorfall in Polen interessirte Spanien nicht im Geringsten“), why should some anonymous letters addressed to Voltaire, ascribed to certain Polish and German Jews, have been translated into Spanish and issued at Brussels, and reissued in Mexico? In the Fifth Catalogue of Second-Hand Books . . . for sale by W. W. Blake . . . July 1900 (Mexico 1900), p. 35, no. 2752, I read the following entry: