Jews in Kotor: following the archival records XV-XX C.

Abstract

"... The largest migrations of the Jewish people in the Mediterranean, from the end of the Middle Ages, included the Montenegrin coast. A very important link in these migrations is the mediation of the Herzegovinians and their caravans, which transported Sephardic Jews, exiles from the Peloponnese, on horseback, most often from Dubrovnik to Thessaloniki. Therefore, it is not questionable that the Jews, after the persecution from Spain in 1492, temporarily or permanently settled in the cities that today cover the Montenegrin coast, such as Herceg Novi and Risan ... "

"...Najveće migracije jevrejskog naroda na Mediteranu, s kraja srednjeg vijeka, obuhvatile su i crnogorsko primorje. Veoma značajna karika u tim migracijama je posredstvo Hercegovaca i njihovih karavana koji su sefardske Jevreje, izgnanike sa Peloponeza, na konjima prevozili najčešće od Dubrovnika pa do Soluna. Stoga nije upitno da su se Jevreji, nakon progona iz Španije 1492. godine, privremeno ili stalno naseljavali u gradovima koji danas zahvataju crnogorsko primorje, kao npr. Herceg Novom i Risnu..."