This is a very interesting pont about someone who suffered from the Spanish and decided that Piracy was a great way to get back at that Empire whose maritime trade was so central.
Samuel Pallache, known as the “Pirate Rabbi,” died on this date in 1616 (some sources say February 4) in Amsterdam, the city where he had founded a community of Sephardic conversos in 1591. Pallache, who grew up in the Jewish…