REL 2120 : REL2120 Lecture10
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Jews had a national network, and when they moved to the ottoman empire, they had a larger network that was very valuable: they were thrilled with the citizenship that they were granted in the. Ottoman empire: chief rabbi of edirne, open letter urging jews to settle in the ottoman. Empire: 4 decades later at the time of the spanish expulsion in 1492, He impoverishes his own country by expelling the. Jews, but he enriches our country. : beginning in the 1450"s, and for the next 100 years, jews came across the mediterranean by boat, land, or foot. Some would leave where they were and go to italy or n. africa first and then make a second trek east to. Ottoman territory: as anti-jew attitudes grew stronger, more jews migrated. 5 and 6% of the population in istanbul was jewish in 1530: salonika mid-16th century: only major urban center in the world with a.