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Nov 14, 2023 · Jacob Bacri dined with Napoleon himself. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Horatio Nelson considered strategies to circumvent the Bacris’ influence. As the families’ ambitions grew, so did the perils, from imprisonment and assassination to fraud and family collapse.
Nov 14, 2023 · Jacob Bacri dined with Napoleon himself. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Horatio Nelson considered strategies to circumvent the Bacris’ influence. As the families’ ambitions grew, so did...
In this panoramic book, Julie Kalman restores their story—and Jewish history more broadly—to the histories of trade, corsairing, and high-stakes diplomacy in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath. Jacob Bacri dined with Napoleon himself.
My recently completed book project, The Kings of Algiers, tells the story of two Jewish trading families based in the port of Algiers: the Bacris and Busnachs. For four decades, during the Napoleonic Wars and beyond, they were perhaps the most infamous Jews in the Mediterranean.
Nov 18, 2023 · At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the Bacri brothers and their nephew, Naphtali Busnach, were perhaps the most notorious Jews in the Mediterranean. Based in the strategic port of Algiers ...
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Jacob Bacri dined with Napoleon himself. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Horatio Nelson considered strategies to circumvent the Bacris’ influence. As the families’ ambitions grew, so did the perils, from imprisonment and assassination to fraud and family collapse.
Bacri and Busnach played an important role as large-scale shipowners. They controlled a fleet of cargo vessels which plied the Mediterranean and Atlantic, flying the Algerian flag.'8 The Bacris purchased many vessels which French or Algerian corsairs captured from the allies during the
