Monday, 21 November 2011

Jews of Morea / Peloponnese, 1689

This snippet is from an English traveller in 1689. I suspect the Jews are not Spanish and Portuguese.
There are also a great many Jews, who for the most part are Merchants and Shop-keepers, living but poorly.
Bernard Randolph. The present state of the Morea: called anciently Peloponnesus. 1689. Pages 16-17.

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