page_title: Pallache family
section_title: Iberia
hierarchical_section_title: Pallache family / History / Iberia
caption_attribution_description: English: Main door of the Synagogue of Córdoba, in Córdoba (Spain). Español: Puerta principal de la Sinagoga de Córdoba, en Córdoba (España).
context_page_description: "Pallache" – also de Palacio, Palache, Palaçi, Palachi, Palacci, Palaggi, and many other variations – is the surname of a prominent, Ladino-speaking, Sephardic Jewish family from the Iberian Peninsula, who spread mostly through the Mediterranean after the Alhambra Decree of March 31, 1492, and related events.
  The Pallache have had connections with both Portuguese and Spanish Sephardic communities, as detailed below.
  The Pallache established themselves in cities in Portugal, Morocco, the Netherlands, Turkey, Egypt, and other countries from the 1500s through the 1900s. The family includes Chief Rabbis, rabbis, founders of synagogues and batei midrash, scientists, entrepreneurs, writers, and others. Best known to date are: Moroccan envoys and brothers Samuel Pallache and Joseph Pallache, at least three grand rabbis of Izmir – Gaon. Haim Palachi, his sons Abraham Palacci and Rahamim Nissim Palacci, grand rabbi of Amsterdam Isaac Juda Palache, American mineralogist Charles Palache, and Dutch linguist Juda Lion Palache.
context_section_description: (Research is currently underway to connect the Pallache more clearly back from Morocco to the Iberian Peninsula and probable ancestor, Samuel ben Meir Ha-Levi Abulafia / Samuel ha-Levi (ca. 1320–1360) of Cordoba, Andalusia, which would make the Pallache family a branch of the Abulafia family.)
  According to Professor Mercedes García-Arenal, the Pallaches were "a Sephardi family perhaps descended from the Bene Palyāj mentioned by the twelfth-century chronicler Abraham Ibn Da’ud as 'the greatest of the families of Córdoba'."
  According to Professor Reginald Aldworth Daly, the Pallaches were "persecuted Sephardim Jews of Portugal who were exiled to Holland."
  According to Professor Giovanna Fiume, "Verso i Paesi Bassi emigra anche la famiglia Pallache, forse dal Portogallo o dalla Spagna, oppure, secundo un'altra ipotesti, dalla nativa Spagna emigra a Fez." (translation:  "The Pallache family also emigrated to the Netherlands, perhaps from Portugal or Spain, or, second,  another hypothesizes, they emigrated [directly] from their native Spain to Fez.")
  
  José Maria Abecassis cites historian Abraham ibn Daud of Toledo (ca. 1110–1180), who wrote:  
   
   Segundo o historiador Abraham Ben Daud (Sepher Ha-Qabbalah, 69) a família Pallache já era célebre em Córdova no séc. 10. Após a expulsão de Espanha em 1492 foi para Marrocos, donde posteriormente se ramificou na Holanda, Turquia, Palestina e em Gibraltar.
  Outras grafias: Palatio, Pallacío, Payachia. 
  Membros desta familia prestaram serviços eminentes a Marrocos no séc. 17. Distinguiram-se como embaixadores ou enviados dos sultões na Europa, especialmente na Holanda. Estabeleceram relações diplomáticas e criaram importantes trocas comerciais com o seu país.
  Os Palaçano viviam em Portugal antes da Expulsão. 
   According to the historian Abraham Ben Daud (Sepher Ha-Qabbalah, 69) the Pallache family was already famous in Cordoba in the 10th century. After expulsion from Spain in 1492, they went to Morocco, where later they branched out to Holland, Turkey, Palestine, and Gibraltar.
   Other spellings: Palatio, Pallacío, Payachia.
   Members of this family provided eminent services to Morocco in the 17th century. They distinguished themselves as ambassadors or envoys of the Sultans in Europe, especially in Holland. They established diplomatic relations and created important trade with their country.
  The Palaçano lived in Portugal before the Expulsion.
caption: Cordoba Synagogue entrance hall from prayer hall
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