Jewish community in the Land of Israel under Mamluk and Ottoman rule
Key events
Nachmanides Aliya (1263)
Alhambra decree (1492)
Manuel I decree (1496)
Hebron and Safed massacres (1517)
Revival of Tiberias (1563)
Sack of Tiberias (1660)
Plunder of Safed (June 1834)
Hebron massacre (August 1834)
Safed attack (1838)
Jerusalem expansion
Moshavot establishment
Key figures
Nachmanides (d.1270)
Joseph Saragossi (d. 1507)
Obadiah MiBartenura (d. 1515)
Abraham ben Eliezer Halevi (d. 1528)
Levi ibn Habib (d. 1545)
Jacob Berab (d. 1546)
Joseph Nasi (d. 1579)
Moses Galante (d. 1689)
Moses ibn Habib (d. 1696)
Yehuda he-Hasid (d. 1700)
Haim Abulafia (d. 1744)
Menachem Mendel (d. 1788)
Haim Farhi (d. 1820)
Aaron Hershler (d. 1873)
Jacob Saphir (d. 1886)
Haim Aharon Valero (d. 1923)
Economy
Etrog cultivation
Winemaking
Banking
Printing
Soap production
Textiles
Philanthropy
Kollel
Halukka
Montefiore
Judah Touro
Communities
Musta'arabim
Sephardim
Perushim
Hasidim
Jerusalem
Mea Shearim
Mishkenot Sha'ananim
Hebron
Safed
Tiberias
Biriya
Jaffa
Haifa
Peki'in
Acco
Shechem
Gaza
Kafr Yasif
Shefa-'Amr
Petah Tikva
Synagogues
Great Academy of Paris (1258)
Ramban (1267)
Abuhav (1490s)
Abraham Avinu (1540)
Ari (1570s)
Johanan ben Zakai (1600s)
Hurva (1700)
Tifereth Israel (1872)
Related articles
History of Israel
Four Holy Cities
Applicability of religious laws
History of Zionism
Timeline
Pre-Modern Aliyah
Return to Zion
Three Oaths
Haredim and Zionism
Edah HaChareidis
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Joseph Nasi (1524, Portugal – 1579, Constantinople), known in Portuguese as João Miques, was a Portuguese Sephardi diplomat and administrator, member of the House of Mendes/Benveniste, nephew of Dona Gracia Mendes Nasi, and an influential figure in the Ottoman Empire during the rules of both Sultan Suleiman I and his son Selim II. He was a great benefactor of the Jewish people.[1]
A court Jew,[2] he was appointed lord of Tiberias,[3] with the expressed aim of resettling Jews in Palestine and encouraging industry there; the attempt failed, and, later, he was appointed Duke of Naxos.[4] Nasi also supported a war with the Republic of Venice, at the end of which Venice lost the island of Cyprus to the Ottomans.[5] After the death of Selim, he lost influence in the Ottoman Court, but was allowed to keep his titles and pension for the remainder of his life.
^Yosef Eisen (2004). Miraculous journey: a complete history of the Jewish people from creation to the present.
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rabbi Joseph Caro, Moses ben Joseph di Trani, and Yosef Sagis. Joseph Caro later ordained rabbi Moshe Alshich, and Alshich ordained Hayyim ben Joseph Vital...
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