Shalom One of our finance professors is doing research on finance in the early modern period. Right now, he is interested in the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. He had read up on the general background and noticed the proclamation of the expulsion of the Jews prohibited them taking coins with them. He is interested to know if they instead took bills of exchange through which the bearer would be able to be given an equivalent amount of money in another locale (e.g. the Netherlands). His hypothesis is that Jews and Muslims, and forced converts to Christianity who left Spain may have left wthl these bills of exchange..and that this led to an outflow of capital from the Iberian Peninsula. He is trying to locate places that store these bills of exchange or notarized documents concerning bills of exchange. I expect registers of such bills or relayed documents would also be useful to hom
So, if you know of any places that have collections of such documents, please reply to me and him. (I am copying the professor on this message.) B'chavod rav. Shmuel Ben-Gad, Gelman Library, George Washington University. "[I]n Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."--Harry Lime in the film "The Third Man".
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