Language:
German
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Judaica Austriaca
Angaben zur Quelle:
13 (1992) 135-144
Keywords:
Crypto-Jews
;
Jewish refugees
;
Jews History Expulsion, 1492
;
Jews
;
Crypto-Jews
Abstract:
Traces the history of the Portuguese Conversos who settled in the Italian port of Ancona, which granted them privileges and protection and enabled them to return to Judaism. In 1555, however, Pope Paul IV had them imprisoned as "Judaizers". While most managed to escape, 24 were burned at the stake in April-June 1556 despite the intervention of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent at the request of Doña Gracia (Mendes) Nasi. Conversos who fled from Ancona to nearby Pesaro called for a boycott on Ancona; but although at first effective, this boycott was soon violated, partly by force of circumstance and partly through the influence of the original Jews of Ancona, whose relations with the Conversos had always been tense, who resented the measures taken against themselves in conjunction with the Church's campaign against Judaizing Conversos, and who now saw themselves financially ruined as a result of the boycott.
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