In the sixth century the chronicles tell of pirate ships with crews of Jews who roamed along the northern shores of Africa, attacking, along with Muslim, Christian ships. These pirates, however, was scrupulous observant of the Sabbath, and used gentle manner with the prisoners. Bishop Synesius pirates captured by the Jews, said that at dusk on Friday any activity ceased; even with the raging storm, the sailors refused to come to the pool at the risk of sinking the ship (the danger that was foiled, it seems, with God's help). So pirates, indeed Jewish pirates, a little known subject. He spoke about the Israeli writer and historian Rafael Patai in 1938 with a book about all the adventures of pirates Jews, entitled La Vida Maritime Jews, and he also mentioned in the history of the English pirate Henry Morgan, a history Jamaica has become well known in the its history. It was not however a completely new topic. Already in Roman times Josephus had devoted a chapter of Jewish War Jewish piracy, you described the pirates Jews against the Roman ships and emphasized the widespread admiration for these pirates in the Jewish, not so much regarded as criminal sailors who attacked and fought against oppression enemy of the Roman Empire. They were heroes then. The same Roman general Titus, son and grandson of Emperor Vespasian, attaches great importance to the naval battle against these Jews sui generis. During the Roman Empire, then, piracy Jewish, if he could contribute to the freedom of the Jewish people, was justified and lacked esaltata.Non pirates Jews in the Middle Ages. Maimonides's brother, David Ben Maimon, often traveled to India, where seas piracy was well known. In fact, Maimonides wrote his brother a letter, warning of the presence of pirate ships with Jews and Muslims united to fight against Christians. The chronicles tell that most of the pirates Jews were perfect knights: respected the honor of women, not killing civilians, not robbing the poor (but rich!) and followed the so-called code of honor of the pirate. How would the Catalan singer Joan Manuel Serrat, so were a little bestias But buena gente.Erano pirates and of course they stole. It would be interesting to hear the rabbinic opinion on the subject, because it is still in violation of the Eighth Commandment. But how about "theft" in the case in which a great empire takes possession of all assets of a people? How does the battle to reclaim? In fact, there were pirates and pirates, some fought for the conquest of freedom and to recover their property, other "criminals" using instead the lust for plunder only to jump ricchezza.Un storm moves to the sixteenth century, who lived in a notorious pirate jew, Simon Fernandez, who escaped the Inquisition and the master of English Sir Walter Ralley. The Spaniards described Fernandez as one of the most bloodthirsty pirates, fierce, a traitor who attacked English ships in the sea of \u200b\u200bthe Antilles without mercy, on the contrary, the British spoke of him as a hero, a great explorer and above all as the best person for fight against the English, for his deep knowledge of Spain and the anger and the pain of being expelled. The end of the seventeenth century was the golden age of piracy around the island of Jamaica. The English empire was coming to its final decline, the English attacked the English sailors from all directions and were increasing numbers of Marranos who fled the New World. Many Jews were forced to choose routes piracy to escape because they could not be recognized as Jews in countries dominated by Spain or Portugal. The jew, therefore, assumed the status of Jews reached pirata.Numerosi Jamaica when it came under the British. The English pirate Henry Morgan proved to be a great friend of the Jews. It welcomed the fact that many of his followers fled from Portugal as well as many blacks. Transformed the island into a free zone, promoted the construction of synagogues, Jewish schools as well as residences for slaves rescued, and finally, even after his death, the fortress Morgan gave refuge to Jews during an earthquake, in 1692, devastated the island. Since then, without interruption, there is a Jewish group in Jamaica that are just the descendants of those pirates? The English pirate Henry Morgan in his crew welcomed Jews fleeing the Iberian Peninsula after the great expulsion.
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