Mr. Maurice Amado

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A Turkish Jewish Profile: Maurice Amado
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A Turkish Jewish Profile: Maurice Amado
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Maurice Amado. Maurice Amado (1888 to 1968) was born in Izmir, Turkey and came from a Sephardic Jewish family that lived for several centuries in the Old Ottoman Turkish Empire, following their ancestors' expulsion from Spain in 1492.
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Amado was in the tobacco trade business, at first working for Standard Commercial Tobacco Company until he left to work for himself. With the proceeds from his profits in the tobacco business he became a successful financier and investor.
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Amado was a very cultured man. He taught himself English by attending lectures and speeches in New York City. He read a great deal, mainly philosophy and kept a large library in his home. He was also an excellent conversationalist.
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A Turkish Jewish Profile: Maurice Amado
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A Turkish Jewish Profile: Maurice Amado
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Maurice Amado. Maurice Amado (1888 to 1968) was born in Izmir, Turkey and came from a Sephardic Jewish family that lived for several centuries in the Old Ottoman Turkish Empire, following their ancestors' expulsion from Spain in 1492.
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Amado was in the tobacco trade business, at first working for Standard Commercial Tobacco Company until he left to work for himself. With the proceeds from his profits in the tobacco business he became a successful financier and investor.
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Amado was a very cultured man. He taught himself English by attending lectures and speeches in New York City. He read a great deal, mainly philosophy and kept a large library in his home. He was also an excellent conversationalist.
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A Turkish Jewish Profile: Maurice Amado

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A Turkish Jewish Profile: Maurice Amado
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Maurice Amado. Maurice Amado (1888 to 1968) was born in Izmir, Turkey and came from a Sephardic Jewish family that lived for several centuries in the Old Ottoman Turkish Empire, following their ancestors' expulsion from Spain in 1492. Amado emigrated to the United States from Turkey in 1904 where he settled in New York and, upon his retirement, resettled in Los Angeles in the 1950's.

Amado was in the tobacco trade business, at first working for Standard Commercial Tobacco Company until he left to work for himself. With the proceeds from his profits in the tobacco business he became a successful financier and investor. He was married to Rose, who had a high-end dress business in New York City. Although Rose had a son from a previous marriage, they never had children. Image Amado family together. Amado was a very cultured man. He taught himself English by attending lectures and speeches in New York City. He read a great deal, mainly philosophy and kept a large library in his home. He was also an excellent conversationalist.

He was extremely close to his nephew, Raphael Amado, who had five children. These children and their descendents have and continue to serve on the Maurice Amado Foundation Board of Directors which he established in 1961. Prior to establishing the Foundation he began his charitable work giving funds to a Sephardic congregation in Los Angeles. This congregation eventually merged and became the Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel located on Wilshire Boulevard in West Los Angeles.

He established a scholarship fund at the Temple for the children of Temple members. His Foundation also funded both capital projects and programs at the Temple for several decades.
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A Turkish Jewish Profile: Maurice Amado

The Maurice Amado Foundation was established in 1961 by Mr. Amado, a successful financier that immigrated from Turkey in the early 1900s.During his lifetime, Mr. Amado supported organizations that perpetuated Sephardic heritage and culture.Since his death in 1968, Mr. Amado's nieces, nephews and their descendants have carried on his charitable work.

A Turkish Jewish Profile: Maurice Amado
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Maurice Amado. Maurice Amado (1888 to 1968) was born in Izmir, Turkey and came from a Sephardic Jewish family that lived for several centuries in the Old Ottoman Turkish Empire, following their ancestors' expulsion from Spain in 1492.
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A Turkish Jewish Profile: Maurice Amado