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- A Walk Around the Block on Vlooienburg (1650-1700) People, Places and Property in the Jewish Neighborhood of Amsterdam
Maarten Hell, Independent historian. maartenhell@gmail.com
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The second house next to the Barocas Henriques residence was called the ‘Red Horse’ (Rode Paard) (ill. 4I) and was rented by the Jewish surgeon and barber Samuel de Crasto (c.1593-1677), an immigrant from Bordeaux. In 1636, he was interrogated by the sheriff about selling stolen goods. Six years later, De Crasto lost his first wife and remarried Judith Israel from Aveiro, Portugal. Surgeons treated flesh wounds and fractures, administered amputations and bloodlettings, and removed urinary stones, while barbers were specialized in shaving beards and cutting hair but also provided medical treatment. Both professions were less respected than university-educated medical doctors, such as Ephraim Bueno, who was a model for Rembrandt and also resided on Vlooienburg, at the corner of the Korte Houtstraat and Houtgracht. Before 167421, Jewish surgeons were banned from the local surgeons guild. Afterwards they had the same status as quacks: by paying a substantial admission fee they were allowed to practice their profession, as long as they did not provide medical care to non-Jewish patients. In the 1660s, De Crasto was one of the regular surgeons and barbers on the payroll of Bikur Holim, the organization of the Portuguese community providing medical care for their sick and poor. After the house Red Horse was sold to the merchant Jacob Delmonte alias Del Sotto, in 1662, the surgeon had to move. The new owner renovated the house. In 1670, it was rented by his nephew Isaac de los Rios (1632-1701), the son of the well-to-do merchant Joseph de los Rios.22
22. ACA, Archive 334, inv.no. 215, p. 232-3; index marriage banns 20 July 1622 and 21 August 1642; Archive 5061, inv.no. 301, 8-9 Feb., 27 Feb., 8 March 1636; Archive 5044, inv.no. 281, fo. 173; Archive 334, inv.no. 520A, p. 87 notary A. Lock, 20 Aug. 1670; Levie Bernfeld, Poverty, 108-11, 364, n. 316; Hagoort, “Del Sotto’s,” 42, n. 59.
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1593 - 1677 (84 años)
