D. Tamar, « On the Jews of Safed in the Days of the Ottoman Conquest » Cathedra 11 (1979), cited Dan Ben Amos, Dov Noy (eds.), Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands), Jewish Publication Society 2011 p. 61, no 3: « Tamar… challenges David's conclusion concerning the severity of the riots against the Jews, arguing that the support of the Egyptian Jews saved the community of Safed from destruction'. »
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Finkelstein 1970, p. 407: « The Jews of Egypt sent them clothing and more than 3,000 gold florins. Rabbi Nissan Biba, who organized the aid, went to Safed to help rehabilitate the victims, By the time Rabbi Basola(en) arrived in Safed five years after the conquest, the flourishing city showed no signs that it had been sacked but recently. The Ottoman conquest did not affect the size or composition of Jewish Safed. This is attested by the government roll of taxpayers which was prepared in 1525-1526 and which mentions four Jewish quarters: Musta'rabim (130 household), Frank (40), Portuguese (21), North African (33). »
(en) Mehrdad Kia(en), Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire, ABC-CLIO, 2011 p. 125.
