Jews in Albania...First reports of Jews living in Albania date from the XII century AD. By the early sixteenth century, there were Jewish settlements in most of major cities of Albania such as Berat, Elbasan, Vlora, Durrës and also they are reported as well in Kosovo region. These Jewish families were mainly of Sephardic origin and descendants of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews expelled from Iberia in the end of XV century AD. In 1520 in Vlora were reported 609 Jewish households and also Vlora was also the site of Albanias only synagogue which was destroyed in the First World War. In 1673 the charismatic Jewish prophet Sabbatai Zevi was exiled by the sultan to the Albanian port of Ulqin, now in Montenegro dying there some years later.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 18:08:31 +0000
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