Marja Libowska, a maid formerly in the employ of Chaim Britanski, was sentenced to three months in prison for having slandered Britanski, alleging that he had participated in a “ritual murder.”
Count Abraham Camando obtained from the Porte the decree in the nineteenth century by which foreigners were permitted to own land in Turkey.
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