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

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

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Anno di pubblicazione

2007

ISBN

9780801886232

Luogo di stampa

Baltimore

Autore

Garcìa-Arenal, Mercedes & Wiegers, Gerard

Editori

Johns Hopkins University Press

Edizione

1st US Edition.

Soggetto

JEWS & JUDAISM. MOROCCO SPAIN NETHERLANDS HOLLAND ENGLAND Samuel, Pallache

Descrizione

Sovracoperta

Stato di conservazione

Come nuovo

Legatura

Brossura

Copia autografata

Prima edizione

Sì

Descrizione

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).In A Man of Three Worlds, Mercedes GarcÌa-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers view Samuel Pallache's world as a microcosm of early modern society, one far more interconnected, cosmopolitan, and fluid than is often portrayed.173p. bibliography, index