Noticia de la toma de Tripoli

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   2009/08/17

   Trevor

   During the forty years of Christian rule in the city of Tripoli (1510-1551), there seems to have been no major Jewish community there. According to a tradition recorded later, 800 Jewish families fled in 1510 from Tripoli to Tajura, an oasis on the Mediterranean coast, east of Tripoli, and to Jebel Gharyna in the interior of the country. Some of the refugees of 1510 (or other Jews) seem to have subsequently returned to Tripoli. (Hirschberg, Bashan, Attal, A History of the Jews in North Africa)
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   2009/08/17

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   The conquest of Tripoli in 1510 brought a large number of Jewish slaves to Sicily. It is reasonable to suppose that a certain number converted, as is illustrated by a halakhic responsum of Rabbi David ben Abi Zimra. The leaders of a Jewish community in Egypt wished to have his opinion concerning the identity of a man who claimed that as a boy he was captured during the conquest of Tripoli, sold as a slave in Palermo and converted. When he was about thirty-five, wishing to return to his faith, he left Sicily and came to Egypt to join his family; his own father, however, refused to acknowledge him. How could anyone recognize a mature man with a black beard, when they only knew him as a beardless boy of seven? (Zeldes, «The former Jews of this kingdom»)