Abraham Aboab (Hamburg)

Rabbi Abraham ben Menasseh Aboab (Hebrew: רבי אברהם בן מנשה אבוהב; d. 1642) also known as Abraham Aboab V was a Western Sephardic Portuguese philanthropist and Rabbi, who was an early founder of the Portuguese Jewish community in Hamburg.

He and his brother Jacob amassed great wealth by trading colonial commerce assets in Lisbon.

In order to escape the Portuguese inquisition, he and his brother later moved to Antwerp, Belgium, where they reverted to the surname Aboab and headquartered an important family firm in which they imported sugar and spices from Portugal to Italy and Northern Europe.

[citation needed] Abraham later married Ana Dinis, and the couple moved to Hamburg in 1611.

In Hamburg, he built the second synagogue in that city, named "Keter Torah," for the Portuguese community, and founded several Yeshivah's both in Germany and in the Land of Israel with the wealth he had amassed.