Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Hispania Judaica Bulletin
Angaben zur Quelle:
6 (2008) 237-265
Keywords:
Abravanel family
;
Jews
;
Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Sephardim History
;
Jews
;
Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
Abstract:
While the King of Naples Ferrante I welcomed Jewish exiles arriving from Spain and Sicily in 1492-93, the local population did not. They feared the Jews would bring deadly epidemics, resented them for the competition they offered as skilled artisans, and hated Ferrante I for favoring them. In 1494 Charles VII, of the House of Anjou, invaded the Kingdom of Naples. Through his religious fervor, he incited the population to commit violent acts against Jews. During 1494-95, encouraged by clerics, mobs attacked Jews and Spanish Conversos, who were robbed, harassed, and killed. Many Jews and Conversos fled to lands of the Holy See, Venice, Mediterranean islands under Venetian control, or the Ottoman Empire, and many converted to Christianity. Some remained in the Kingdom of Naples, and most of the Sicilian converts returned to Sicily. Notes that the restoration of the Aragonese dynasty in 1497 had a positive effect for the Jews who remained in Naples.
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