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Isaac da Costa Vila Real e o seu projecto para o ensino das órfãs da Nação (Londres, 1730)

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: The Escola de Inocentes Raparigas (School for Innocent Girls), later called “Villareal School”, was a unique welfare and educational project within the Sephardi congregation of London. Aiming to teach Jewish orphan and poor girls, this project was designed by José (alias Isaac) da Costa Vila Real, a Portuguese Jew living in London since 1726. It emerges at a moment when the congregation was facing the highest migratory wave from Iberia ever recorded, which caused the demographic growth of the community but also the deepening of poverty amongst part of its members. This work analyses the circumstances that led to the foundation of the Villareal School, as well as its first century of working, based on its regulations, minutes and accounts from 1730 to 1830.

Source: Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT)

Author: Vieira, Carla Cristina da Costa

Institutions: University of Lisbon, CHAM - Centro de Humanidades, Cátedra de Estudos Sefarditas Alberto Benveniste, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Language: Portuguese

Topic: Historical Education and Society

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Quality education, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7112200722

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