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Jasón, a Jewish archer on the prow of a pirate ship (a painting from Jason's Tomb). Jewish pirates were Jewish people who engaged in piracy.While there is some mention of the phenomenon in antiquity, especially during the Hasmonean period (c. 140–37 BCE), most Jewish pirates were Sephardim who operated in the years following the Alhambra Decree of 1492 ordering the expulsion of Iberia's Jews.
Even though his role as a pirate was disclosed during the Spanish Inquisition, he was never caught and never faced trial. [1] [2] [3] After the English conquest of Jamaica, Henriques migrated to the island, where he helped to establish the Jewish community in Jamaica. Morgan, who became the governor of Jamaica, gave Henriques a full pardon in ...
In 1672 thirty-one Port Royal merchants petitioned the governor complaining of large numbers of Jewish retail merchants active on the island. [5] Abraham Blauvelt was a Dutch-Jewish pirate, privateer, and explorer of Central America and the western Caribbean, after whom the towns of Bluefields, Nicaragua, and Bluefields, Jamaica, were both ...
In 1683 Josiah departed to Jamaica, which was an unusual decision since the Curaçao Jewish community was economically better off at that time. Possibly, a conflict with influential leaders (parnasim) of the Mikvé Israel community was the reason for his departure. [7] In the 1670s, Port Royal had a reputation of a center of piracy. [8]
Jean Hamlin [a] (fl. 1682–1684) was a French pirate active in the Caribbean and off the coast of Africa. He was often associated with St. Thomas 's pirate-friendly Governor Adolph Esmit . History
Edward Heyward Kritzler (died 2010) was a Jamaican popular historian, specializing in the Sephardic diaspora in the wake of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and the Jewish identity continuity in the "New World", Amsterdam, the Maghreb, and Ottoman eastern Mediterranean.
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According to sources, Laurens de Graaf used a plain blue flag when attacking vessels. De Graaf began his pirate career not long after marrying de Guzmán, though no records of his activity were made until 1682 when Sieur de Pouancay, the governor of Saint-Domingue, recorded that de Graaf had been sailing "on the account" since approximately 1675 or 1676 as the captain of a French privateer crew.