1660 destruction of Tiberias
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The 1660 destruction of TiberiasDruze power struggle in the Galilee, in the same year as the destruction of Safed. The destruction of Tiberias by the Druze resulted in abandonment of the city by its Jewish community,[2][3] until it was rebuilt by Zahir al-Umar in early eighteenth century. Altshuler however attributes the destruction of Tiberias in 1660 to an earthquake.[4] The destruction could have also been a combination of both events.
Tiberias in the sixteenth century
As the
leader made Tiberias his capital.The 1660 destruction
The destruction of Tiberias by the Druze resulted in the Jewish community fleeing entirely.[2][3] Unlike Tiberias, which became desolate for many years, the nearby city of Safed recovered from its destruction by Arabs in 1660 relatively quickly,[11] not becoming entirely abandoned,[12] remaining an important Jewish center in the Galilee.
Aftermath
In the 1720s,
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References
- ^ A Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine. P.409. "Sultan Seliman surrounded it with a wall in 5300 (1540), and it commenced to revive a little, and to be inhabited by the most distinguished Jewish literati; but it was destroyed again in 5420 (1660)."
- ^ a b Joel Rappel, History of Eretz Israel from Prehistory up to 1882 (1980), Vol.2, p.531. 'In 1662 Sabbathai Sevi arrived to Jerusalem. It was the time when the Jewish settlements of Galilee were destroyed by the Druze: Tiberias was completely desolate and only a few of former Safed residents had returned..."
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8173-0572-7p. 149
- ^ Altshuler, M. The Messianic secret. Chapter 8:The beginning of redemption in Galilee. Hebrew: ספר – הסוד המשיחי [1] Archived 2018-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 978-1-4050-8873-2pp xv–xix
- ^ Alfassa.com Archived 2007-10-12 at the Wayback Machine Sephardic Contributions to the Development of the State of Israel, Shelomo Alfassá
- ^ Schaick, Tzvi. Who is Dona Gracia? Archived 2011-05-10 at the Wayback Machine, The House of Dona Gracia Museum.
- ^ Naomi E. Pasachoff, Robert J. Littman, A Concise History of the Jewish People, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 , p.163
- ^ a b Benjamin Lee Gordon, New Judea: Jewish Life in Modern Palestine and Egypt, Manchester, New Hampshire, Ayer Publishing, 1977, p.209
- ^ "The Druze of the Levant". Archived from the original on March 9, 2012.
- ^ Sidney Mendelssohn. The Jews of Asia: especially in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. (1920) p.241. "Long before the culmination of Sabbathai's mad career, Safed had been destroyed by the Arabs and the Jews had suffered severely, while in the same year (1660) there was a great fire in Constantinople in which they endured heavy losses..."
- ISBN 978-0-691-01809-6. "In Safed, too, the [Sabbatai] movement gathered strength during the autumn of 1665. The reports about the utter destruction, in 1662 [sic], of the Jewish settlement there seem greatly exaggerated, and the conclusions based on them are false. ... Rosanes' account of the destruction of the Safed community is based on a misunderstanding of his sources; the community declined in numbers but continued to exist."
- ^ Richard Pococke: A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World: Many of which are Now First Translated Into English ; Digested on a New Plan By John Pinkerton by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1811 A Description of the East and Some other Countries Archived 2022-10-31 at the Wayback Machine, p. 460
- ^ Moammar, Tawfiq (1990), Zahir Al Omar, Al Hakim Printing Press, Nazareth, page 70
- ^ Joseph Schwarz. Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine Archived 2018-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, 1850