Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Mediterranean Historical Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
9,2 (1994) 235-255
Keywords:
Jews
;
Antisemitism History 1500-1800
;
Jews History 1500-1800
;
Jews History 1500-1800
Abstract:
Examines the circumstances in which the royal government in Spain decreed the expulsion of the Jews from Oran (Algeria) and Mers-el-Kebir in 1669. Despite the Expulsion Edict of 1492, relatively normal relations existed between the Spanish authorities and the Jews of Spanish North Africa, because the former needed interpreters who not only spoke both Spanish and Arabic, but also knew the hinterland; sometimes they also needed Jewish credit and commercial services. It was not religious animosity which caused the 1669 expulsion, but a highly complex situation both in Spain and in the Mediterranean world: the Shabbatian heresy which swept over the Sephardic communities in 1666 and heightened tensions between the three great faiths of the Mediterranean; the resumption of the Ottoman offensive against Venetian Crete in 1667-69; and the precarious grip on power in Spain of the Austrian Jesuit, Father Nithard, who was then its Inquisitor-General and chief minister.
Note:
Appeared also in his "Conflicts of Empires" (1997) 219-239.
DOI:
10.1080/09518969408569672
URL:
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