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Solomon Ibn Verga
1460–1554
Born in Castile, Solomon Ibn Verga was a historiographer. With the 1492 Edict of Expulsion from Spain, Ibn Verga fled to Lisbon; in 1497, he was forcibly baptized. In 1506, Ibn Verga escaped to Rome, where he wrote Shevet Yehudah (The Staff of Judah), a series of chapters describing events in the history of the Jews, mainly persecutions. Solomon’s son Joseph Ibn Verga edited, completed, and published the manuscript in 1554.
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Shevet Yehudah (The Staff of Judah)
The slaughter that occurred there, in Lisbon:
I was out of the city, and when I returned after several days they told me that the two [events, namely, the massacre within Lisbon and in the surrounding…