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NASI, JOSEPH (16th century)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 247 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NAN-NEW
NASI, JOSEPH (16th century) , Jewish statesman and financier, was born in Portugal of a Jewish (
Marano
 ) family. Emigrating from his native land, he founded a banking
house
  in Antwerp. Despite his
financial
  and social prosperity there, he felt it irk-some to be compelled to
wear
  the guise of Catholicism, and determined to settle in a Mahomrnedan land. After two troubled years in Venice,
Nasi
  betook himself to
Constantinople
 . Here he proclaimed his Judaism, and married his beautiful
cousin
  Reyna. He rapidly rose to favour, the sultans Suleiman and Selim promoting him to high office. He founded a Jewish colony at Tiberias which was to be an asylum for the Jews of the Roman Campagna. In 1566 when Selim ascended the throne,
Nasi
  was made duke of Naxos. He had deserved well of Turkey, for he had conquered Cyprus for the sultan. Nasi's influence was so
great
  that foreign powers often negotiated through him for concessions which they sought from the sultan. Thus the emperor of Germany,
Maximilian
  II., entered into direct correspondence with Nasi; William of Orange, Sigismund August II., king of Poland, also conferred with him on political questions of moment. On the death of Selim in 1574, Nasi receded from his political position, but retained his wealth and offices, and passed the five years of life remaining to him in honoured tranquillity at Belvedere (
Constantinople
 ). He died in 1579. His career was not productive of direct results, but it was of
great
  moral importance. It was one of the tokens of the new era that was to dawn for the Jews as trusted public officials and as members of the state.
See Graetz, History of the Jews (Eng. trans.), vol. iv. chs. xvi.-xvii.; Jewish Encyclopedia, ix. 172. (I. A.)


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