Sourced narrative
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3 statements
Statements for this event
01
The Livornina of 1593 protected former conversos in Livorno and Pisa from inquisitorial scrutiny.
02
By the eighteenth century, Livorno was a major Sephardi community and commercial port.
03
In 1638 Simone Luzzatto published a systematic case for Jewish usefulness in international commerce.
§ 01Geography
Where it happened
Gazetteer coordinates (Pleiades for ancient places; Natural Earth and Wikidata for modern ones) over modern physical geography (Natural Earth). Coastlines and the Dead Sea have changed since antiquity.
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§ 04Network
Connections
§ 05Bibliography
Further reading
Yosef Kaplan, An Alternative Path to Modernity: The Sephardi Diaspora in Western Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2000).
Western Sephardim and modernity · recommended in Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 261
§ 06Apparatus
Sources on this page
- 01Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 250inspect
- 02Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 250inspect
- 03Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman, p. 250inspect
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