Name of Object:

A treaty between the Regency of Tunis and the Grand Duke of Tuscany, concerning the jurisdiction over Tuscan Jews who migrated to Tunisia

Location:

Florence, Italy

Holding Institution:

State Archives of Florence

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Holding Institution (original language):

Archivio di Stato di Firenze

Date of Object:

Tunis, 2 November 1846

Description:

Treaty of one article, in Italian and Arabic, signed by the Tuscan Consul Enrico Nyssen and by the Bey Ahmed Bascià, sealed with a wax seal of the Consulate General of Tuscany, and ratified by the Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold the II on 29 January 1847.
This treaty modified the 1822 treaty between the two countries which had given to the Jews from Livorno the same status of Tunisian Jews (placing them under the Beys' jurisdiction). According to this new treaty, the Tuscan Jews who had moved to Tunisia (or would move to Tunisia in the future) and registered in the Tuscan Consulate, were placed under Tuscan jurisdiction and protection. Such provision did not apply to the so-called “Grana” Jews who had moved to Tunisia from Livorno (Tuscany) in the late 17th century.

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

ASFi, Trattati Internazionali, CXCII [192]: “Modificazione del Trattato commerciale fatto colla Reggenza di Tunisi nel 1822 relativamente agli Israeliti”

Citation of this web page:

Loredana Maccabruni "A treaty between the Regency of Tunis and the Grand Duke of Tuscany, concerning the jurisdiction over Tuscan Jews who migrated to Tunisia" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;126;en

Prepared by: Loredana Maccabruni
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT1 126