É. Apor (ed.): David Kaufmann Memorial Volume: Papers Presented at the David Kaufmann Memorial Conference, November 29, 1999, Budapest.

DAVID, Abraham: Historical Sources in the Kaufmann Collection: The Case of the Expulsion from the Papal States (1569)

HISTORICAL SOURCES IN THE KAUFMANN COLLECTION expulsion, namely between the years 1566-1569. Two of them have been published by David Kaufmann himself (MSS Kaufmann A 418, A 493).

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7 One (MS Kaufmann A 504) has been published by myself.

2" Five other letters (MS Kaufmann A 493) were recently published by Boksenboim.

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9 Conclusion Despite the fact that much of the documentary material from iggeronim in the Kaufmann Collection lacks identifying details, it can further our understanding of the fate of the expellees from the Papal States, both during and after the expulsion. Some expellees found refuge with the assistance of Jews in other cities, including Rome, Ancona, Pesaro, Mantua, and Ferrara. In order to help the exiles continue their search for a safe refuge in Italy and abroad in the East, the Jewish communities in these cities were forced to appeal to other Jewish communities for financial assistance. Several sources indicate that the expellees who settled in Pesaro and were expelled from the Duchy of Urbino two years later fell captive to maritime pirates outside Italy and that their release was obtained with the cooperation of Venice and her allies. There can be no doubt that future discoveries both from the Kaufmann Collection and other important treasuries of Hebrew manuscripts will considerably enrich our knowledge of key events of Italian Jewish history. 2

7 David KAUFMANN, Notes and Discusssion (A letter from the community of Pesaro to Don Joseph Nassi) = Jewish Quarterly Review 4(1891-2) 509-512; Idem, Don Joseph Nassi, Founder of Colonies in the Holy Land, and the Community of Cori in the Campagna = Jewish Quarterly Review 2(1890) 291-310. 2

8 DAVID, New Documents - Italia. 20-21. 2

9 BOKSENBOIM, Iggerot Yehudei Italia. 279-283. 37