Abstract
This study is an attempt to follow the fortunes of several members of the Jewish community of Famagusta following the conquest of this town by the Ottomans in 1571. It is firstly based on a comparison between a list of family heads found in Venetian records of the late 1560s and another list included in a census carried out after the Ottoman takeover of the same town. This comparison is completed by Venetian judicial and administrative records of the 1570s and by other contemporary sources of various provenances, which are helpful for tracking down the personal fates of these people. The results of this enquiry finally serve for some tentative conclusions regarding Jewish patterns of migration within and around Venice's overseas empire.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 241-249 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Mediterranean Historical Review |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Dec 2012 |
Keywords
- Candia
- Chania
- Crete
- Cyprus
- Eliezer Ashkenazi
- Elijah of Pesaro
- Jewish migration
- Joseph Caro
- Ottoman conquests
- Synagogues
- Venetian colonies
- responsa