A Salonican Sefardi Admiresthe Virtues of His Contemporary Ottoman Sultans and Describes the Grandeurof Constantina (Istanbul): Moshe Almosnino’s Cronica de los Reyes Otomanos

Makale İngilizce Tarih× Osmanlı× 17. yy×

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Yazarlar:

Alisa Meyuhas GINIO

Ekle

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Ekle

Yayın Yılı:

2014

Yayınlandığı Eser:

Journal of Sefardic Studies

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Sayfa Aralığı:

89-100

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Operatör:

İhsan Turhan

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İhsan Turhan

Özet:

R. Mosheh Almosnino, a well known Sefardi sage, was born in Salonica
(Thessloniki; Selânik), in the year 1518. He belonged to a rich and
renowned Jewish family originating in the Iberian kingdom of Aragon.
During the years 1566-1567, R. Almosnino spent a year and a half in
Istanbul, as a member of a Jewish delegation pleading the cancellation of
several decrees, made by the highest Ottoman authorities, regarding the
economic situation of the Jewish community of Salonica. Being a member of
the second generation after the 1492 expulsion, R. Almosnino –like his
Jewish contemporaries– was grateful to the Ottoman sultans for their
hospitality towards the Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula. A man of
the Renaissance, living in a century of powerful kings, he appreciated the
position of mighty and resourceful rulers. While in Istanbul, R. Almosnino
wrote several literary works in which he expressed his admiration of the
then ruling Ottoman Sultans Suleiman I (1520-1566) and his son and heir
Selim II (1566-1574) and described the magnificence of the Ottoman
capital.