Abraham Furtado

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Abraham Furtado (1756-1817), a member of the Portuguese Jewish community in France. He was elected president of the Assembly of Notables; later he served as secretary of the Parisian Sanhedrin.

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Arthur Hertzberg, The French Enlightenment and the Jews: The Origins of Modern Anti-Semitism, Columbia University Press, New York, 1990.