Fast Facts Fast Fact 27

Fast Fact #27

Doña Gracia Nasi, a 16th century Converso, openly reclaimed her Judaism and dedicated her life to activism on behalf of her people. She used her family’s shipping wealth and influence to help Jews flee Iberia and to establish houses of learning and worship. With permission of the Ottoman Sultan, she initiated the rebuilding of Tiberias in the Holy Land as a refuge for Marranos.

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