Cattle die, and kinsmen die, and so must one die oneself. But there is one thing I know which never dies, and that is the fame of a dead man's deeds.
Feb 19, 2018 • 30 tweets • 10 min read
Blond, tall, with honey-colored eyes: Jewish Ownership of Slavic Slaves in the Ottoman Empire. Hundreds of Hebrew written sources, dozens of official decrees, judicial records indicate that slave holding of females of Slavic origin in Jewish households in the Ottoman Empire
was widespread from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
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