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Sephardic Jews did not envision Palestine as the seat of Jewish governance and autonomy in the immediate aftermath of World War I. Sa'adi Levy, who lived in Salonica, owned a printing press in Amsterdam that published newspapers in Ladino and French covering the rival ideological claims and intellectual controversies of the day: Ottoman ...
Anatolia's Jewish population before Ottoman times primarily consisted of Greek-speaking Romaniote Jews, with a handful of dispersed Karaite communities. In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, many Sephardic Jews from Spain, Portugal and South Italy expelled by the Alhambra Decree found refuge across the Ottoman Empire , including ...
The presence of Sephardim and New Christians along the Malabar coast eventually aroused the ire of the Catholic Church, which then obtained permission from the Portuguese crown to establish the Goan Inquisition against the Sephardic Jews of India. In recent times, principally after 1948, most Eastern Sephardim have relocated to Israel, and ...
The presence of Jews in İzmir (Smyrna) dates back to antiquity, with mentions in the New Testament (Revelation 2:8, 1:11). It appears that the Jewish community held some influence over the local pagan population, leading to a number of conversions. However, the rise of Christianity weakened the influence and presence of Jews in the region.
Until the end of the 18th century, the population stayed relatively stable, or it could have increased a bit, up to 40 thousand Jews. [19] In the 18th century, the Ottoman Jews of Istanbul suffered economic disadvantages because of growing economic competition with the European-backed Christians, [20] who were able to compete unfairly through a ...
[clarification needed] Sephardi Jews arrived in the Ottoman Empire from the Iberian Peninsula beginning in 1492, and soon were a larger group of Jews in population than the Romaniotes. The Romaniotes of Istanbul, as in many communities, including Thessaloniki became assimilated into the Sephardic culture and adopted the Sephardic liturgy as ...
Sabbatai Zevi was a Sephardic ordained rabbi from Smyrna (now İzmir, Turkey). [5] [6] A kabbalist of Romaniote origin, [7] Zevi, who was active throughout the Ottoman Empire, claimed to be the long-awaited Jewish Messiah. He was the founder of the Sabbatean movement, whose followers subsequently were to be known as Dönmeh "converts" or crypto ...
Solomon Eliezer Alfandari, Sephardic rabbi; Isak Andic, is a Spanish billionaire businessman; Seyla Benhabib, political theorist [17] Can Bonomo, musician from İzmir who represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan; Abraham Salomon Camondo, Ottoman-Italian financier and philanthropist; patriarch of the Camondo family