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Turkish Jewelry Sector Wants US Custom Taxed To Be Lifted

While Turkey is among the five greatest markets in the gold jewelry sector along with India and USA, it is also competing with Italy in the production field.  According to a report by the Exports Promotion Center of Turkey, although Turkey has a goldsmithing capacity of 400 tons annually it onl...

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Turkish Metal Exporters Get Ready for 2023

As Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals Exporters' Association prepared their strategy in 2009, the industry’s share of Turkey’s total exports was 4.2%. They are aiming to reach a level of 5.5% in 2023. To achieve this target, Istanbul Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals Exporters' Associat...

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How Will the UN's Iran Sanctions Effect The Turkish Chemical Industry?

In the last five years, Turkey's chemical industry exports have increased by an average annual rate of 5%. These exports make up 5.7% of Turkey’s total exports . The industry exported 4.9 billion in 2008 and this increased by 7.5% in 2009, reaching 5.2 billion dollars. On the other hand, T...

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Can Turkey Become A Producer in the North America Market?

During 1980s, the Turkish iron and steel industry showed great progress, which paralleled the establishment of the electric arc furnace mills and developments in the economic structure. Today, with its integrated plants that have capacities ranging from 1 million tons up to 3 million tons and with 1...

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Turkey Sells Products to the World but Its Exports to The U.S. Market Decreasing

Turkey’s Foreign Trade Minister Zafer Çağlayan, who spoke to TURKOFAMERICA magazine about the trade issues between the two countries, said “We are carrying out our activities both through state-wide private sectors and through the federal government in order to gain more ben...

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A Turkish Jewish Profile: Maurice Amado PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 05 October 2009
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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.
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Maurice Amado.

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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Amado family together.

As one of the Foundation’s most lasting charitable gifts, the Maurice Amado Foundation established an endowed chair at UCLA to support research and teaching in Sephardic culture and history by a distinguished scholar in any of the disciplines associated with the broadest range of Sephardic concerns.  This encompasses the entire historical and geographical scope of Sephardic culture and religion from its beginnings as a regional phenomenon in the Iberian Peninsula to its development as a widespread manifestation of Jewish social and intellectual experience throughout the world.
 
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