As Professor H.P. Salomon has shown, in his article The Strange Odyssey of Bendigamos, Bendigamos was in all likelihood written during the 17th century, and was a product of the Spanish speaking ex-Converso communities of south-western France. By means of family connections, the composition found its way to the to the island of Curaçao. But it was only in the early 1900's that it surfaced in New York, and it was not until the second half of the 20th century that it was introduced to the communities in England and Holland. It is traditionally sung after the Birkat Hamazon.

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