15th–17th centuries
Expulsion from the kingdoms of Sicily and Sardinia, Aragonese possessions, in application of the Granada decree
1492-1493·Sicile, Sardaigne
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Sicily and Sardinia were possessions of the Crown of Aragon: the Decree of Granada applied to them by full right. Yet Sicily was home to an ancient, numerous Judaism deeply rooted in the crafts and dyeing trades, spread across dozens of towns — Palermo, Syracuse, Messina, Trapani — and present on the island since Antiquity.
The local magistracies and towns protested, arguing that the departure of the artisans would ruin the island's economy; they obtained delays, but not a revocation. Sicilian Judaism, one of the oldest in the western Mediterranean, thus disappeared within a few months; its members made their way to Naples, Calabria, and then the Ottoman Empire.
- Period :
- 15th–17th centuries
- Type :
- Expulsion
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Italie
Shlomo Simonsohn, *The Jews in Sicily* ; Cecil Roth, *The History of the Jews of Italy* ; Luis Suárez Fernández, *Documentos acerca de la expulsión de los judíos*.