Re: [ha-Safran] Fwd: Finance and the expulsion from Spain and Portugal

[Judith Cohen via Hasafran]

Shalom, Shmuel, Anne forwarded your message to me. I actually know next to nothing about economic history - as an ethnomusicologist and historical ethnomusicologist, I have worked extensively for many years (decades, actually!) on the role of music among Sephardim and among Crypto-Jews in Portugal and Spain. This of course does require some historical research but your question is beyond my knowledge range. I would be happy to write to colleagues on the Espora listserv if the professor in question isn't a member of it. Members of that list have a wide range of specialties related to medieval and Early Modern Iberia, and I'm quite sure at least one of them will either be able to answer the question or suggest someone who can respond to it. all the best, Judith Dr Judith Cohen www.judithcohen.ca From: Shmuel Ben-Gad via Hasafran <hasafran@lists.osu.edu> Date: January 24, 2019 at 8:45:27 AM EST To: hasafran@lists.osu.edu Cc: Professor Wilson <a...@gwu.edu> Subject: [ha-Safran] Finance and the expulsion from Spain and Portugal Reply-To: Shmuel Ben-Gad <shmu...@gwu.edu> 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".          __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: galro...@osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list Hasafran@lists.osu.edu https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran

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