After Expulsion: 1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry

Index

>> 205 Abdalla, Saadian sultan of Morocco, 66 Abravanel, Isaac (Judah’s father): Conversos’ reluctance to leave Portugal, 129; Edict of Expulsion, 28; Ferdinand II, King of Aragon, 22; Iberian Jewish refugees, 33; Jews’ reaction to expulsion, 151; temporal success, cost of, 118–119 Abravanel, Isaac (Judah’s son), 153 Abravanel, Judah, 153–155 Abravanel clan, 162 Abulafia, Samuel, 51 Adarbi, Isaac, 86 Adibe family, 89 Águila, Francisco de, 51 Akrish, Isaac ben Abraham, 147 Alami, Solomon, 17 Alashkar, Moses: on betrothal and marriage, 96–97; Candia, Crete, intercession in, 106; exempting rabbis from taxation, 108; Katzenellenbogen, Meir, 106; men’s honor, defense of, 124; rabbinic traits, his, 104; women’s head covering, 117–118 Albuquerque, Afonso de, 68 Aleppo, Syria, 124 Algiers, 58, 64, 66–67, 85 Almeria, 35 Almosnino, Moses: contempt for lower orders of society, 123; economic benefits of generosity , 82–83; Jewish women, rich vs. poor, 110; Ottoman demands for tribute, 50; religious observance among Jews of Istanbul, 118 Americas, 8, 68–69 Ancona: boycott of, 70; Conversos in, 70, 72, 129; earrings as a mark of Jewishness, 124–125; as a mercantile hub, 143; reading and writing Castilian using Hebrew characters , 138; Sephardic women in, 123–124 Andalusi Jews, 13, 30, 142 Anderson, Benedict, 161 Angelo, Joan, 54 anti-Converso attacks/riots, 20, 30, 41 anti-Jewish attacks/riots, 3, 25–26, 42–43, 47 anti-Jewish sentiment, 25–26, 102–103 Arabic language, 3 Arabs, 161 Aragon, Crown of: expansion, 23; fifteenth century, 26, 27; Jewish courtiers, 15; Jewish refugees from, 39, 84; laws, 14; Levant trade, 4; North Africa, interests in, 27; returnees to, 54; separation along religious lines, goal of, 26–27 Aragonese Jews, 39 Arba’ah turim, 22 Ardutiel, Abraham, 153 Ashkenazim, 83–84, 145 Aveiro, Pantaleão de, 139 Azemmour, 67 Baena, Juan de, 147 Balkan Jews, 85, 143 Baptista, João, 95 Baron, Salon, 77 Basola, Moses, 84, 100–101, 103 Bayezid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 48 Beinart, Haim, 170n16 Ben Asher, Jacob, 22 Ben Israel, Menasseh, 98–99, 101–102 Benzammero family, 89 Berab, Jacob, 111, 124 berure averot, 16–17 Bethlehem, 139 Bologna, 73 Borba, Vasco Coutinho de, 67 Bordeaux, 100 Boton, Abraham di, 109 Cadamosto, Alvise, 5 Cairo, 90, 124, 130 Çalama, Abraham, 55 Candia, Crete: Alashkar, Moses, intercession by, 106; betrothals in, 97; Iberian Jewish refugees in, 30, 71 Capsali, Elijah, 48, 146, 148 Cardoso, Isaac, 152 Index 206 > 207 Latin Christendom, 157; diaspora society, creation of a, 2, 31–32; Granada, fall of (1492), 11–12; historical context, 1–4, 12; leadership of wealthy Jews, dependence on, 38–39; magnitude of, 57; mass conversions to Christianity, 26; metaphysical impact, 151; as a process, 8, 34–39; as a punishment, 145–146 Ferdinand II, King of Aragon: Abravanel, Isaac (Judah’s father), 22; Edict of Expulsion, 40; Granada, fall of, 11; Iberian Jews, 12; Jews of Navarre, safe passage for, 149; Maghreb, attacks on, 66; marriage to Isabella, 40; Mediterranean world, interest in, 4; returnees , encouragement of, 54 Ferrante I, King of Naples, 53–54 Ferrara: betrothals in, 96; Jewish financial obligations, 88; policies regarding Jews, 130; reading and writing Castilian using Hebrew characters, 138; Sephardic merchants in, 100 Fez: anti-Jewish violence, 42; Castilian Jews in, 51; civil strife in, 65–66; fire in, 55; Iberian Jewish refugees in, 45, 96; Ibn Jamil, Shem Tov, 36; Jewish congregations in, 85; Jewish merchants in, 99; Jewish poor in, 109–110; local Jews, security afforded, 44; ordinances encouraging religious observance, 119 Florence, 73 France, 3, 71–72 French Jews, 3, 44, 83, 84 Gabison clan, 162 Garcia, Diego, 53 Garcia, Martin, 54 Garçon, Joseph, 105 Genoa: conversions in, 54; expulsion of Jews from, 72; Iberian Jewish refugees in, 171n44; local Jews in, 46 Genoese in Iberia, 5 Genoese Jews, 150 Ginzburg, Carlo, 119–120 Goitein, S. D., 2–3, 93–94 Granada: Arabic-speaking Jewish refugees from, 142; fall of (1492), 1, 11–12, 13–14; Ibn Jamil, Shem Tov, 35; Jews leaving, 30, 38 Greek Jews. See Romaniot Jews Ha-Kohen, David ben Hayyim, 131–132 Ha-Kohen, Joseph: Chronicle of the Kings of the Franks and of the Ottoman Turkish Sultans, 147–148, 153; North Africa, Iberian Jewish refugees in, 39, 43; The Vale of Tears, 145, 149–151 Ha-Kohen, Solomon ben Abraham, 108 Ha-Levi, Samuel, 15 Ha-Levi Buqarat, Abraham ben Solomon, 55 Halorki, Joshua, 21, 29–30 Haughton, William, 100 Henry II, King of France, 149 Henry III...