Building social capital in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: the emergence of the Sephardic elites in the Ottoman Empire KU Leuven
In the expulsions of 1492 and 1497, many Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal immigrated to the Ottoman Empire. Many of these Sephardic Jews were highly educated members of the social elite with a variety of professions. They were thus considered useful and their migration was encouraged by the Ottoman authorities. This research project aspires to provide the first systematic study of the nine selected Sephardic elites-Joseph and Moses ...