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A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe

A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe

Wiegers, Gerard
Beagles, Martin
García-Arenal, Mercedes

Paperback

African HistoryGeneral World HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN10: 0801886236
ISBN13: 9780801886232
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Apr 1 2007
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

In the late fifteenth century, many of the Jews expelled from Spain made their way to Morocco and established a dynamic community in Fez. A number of Jewish families became prominent in commerce and public life there. Among the Jews of Fez of Hispanic origin was Samuel Pallache, who served the Moroccan sultan as a commercial and diplomatic agent in Holland until Pallache's death in 1616. Before that, he had tried to return with his family to Spain, and to this end he tried to convert to Catholicism and worked as an informer, intermediary, and spy in Moroccan affairs for the Spanish court. Later he became a privateer against Spanish ships and was tried in London for that reason. His religious identity proved to be as mutable as his political allegiances: when in Amsterdam, he was devoutly Jewish; when in Spain, a loyal converso (a baptized Jew).

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