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Judaica / Zionisim - Jacob Rodrigues Pereira medal
Judaica / Zionisim – Jacob Rodrigues Pereira medal
Jacob Rodrigues Pereira or Jacob Rodrigue Péreire (April 11, 1715 – September 15, 1780) was a Portuguese Jewish educator and academic. He was the first teacher of deaf-mutes in France.
Jacob Rodrigues Pereira was born in Berlanga (Badajoz), Spain, a descendant of a Portuguese Crypto-Jewish family from Chacim, Trás-os-Montes. His baptismal name was Francisco António Rodrigues, and his parents were João Lopes Dias and Leonor Rodrigues Pereira. In about 1741 he and his mother and siblings moved to Bordeaux and returned to Judaism; he adopted the name Jacob and his mother Abigail Rivka Rodrigues.