§ Debates · Ch. 8 · A Jewish Renaissance
Did Bayezid II invite the Spanish exiles?
2 positions · no single answer
Position A · held by A later popular myth
The sultan's invitation
Bayezid supposedly called Spanish Jews into his empire.
Rests on: p. 221
Reads the same page as : the same source, different readings.
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- The story that Bayezid II invited Spanish Jews is popular but historically inaccurate.