MICHAEL VIII PALAEOLOGUS°
- MICHAEL VIII PALAEOLOGUS°
- MICHAEL VIII PALAEOLOGUS°, Byzantine emperor (1259–82). In
1261 Michael recaptured Constantinople from the Latins, who had held it
from 1204, and restored an independent if greatly reduced empire. Unlike
his predecessors in Nicaea, he had no reason to suspect his Jewish
subjects of having contact with Jews in hostile territory and was
anxious to gain their support. Therefore as recorded by Jacob ben
Elijah, the only contemporary Hebrew source, he called together the
leaders of the Jewish communities and promised them religious tolerance
as well as thus ending a series of nearly 40 years of persecutions (see
epirus ). Michael also persuaded his son and co-emperor Andronicus
II Palaeologus (1282–1328) to continue and expand this
policy, so that the Jews of Constantinople – as distinct from Jewish
merchants of hostile Venice living in Constantinople – were allowed to
live and build synagogues wherever they wished – to the displeasure of
Patriarch Athanasius I.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
J. Starr, Romania (1949), 20–23; J. Mann, in:
REJ, 82 (1926), 372–3; P. Charanis, in:
Speculum, 22 (1947), 75–76.
(Andrew Sharf)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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