Name of Object:

Portrait of Abraham Behor And Nisim Camondo

Location:

Istanbul, Türkiye

Holding Institution:

The Quincentennial Foundation Museum, Zulfaris Synagogue Museum

 About Ministry of Culture and Tourism (General Directorate for Cultural Heritage and Museums), Istanbul

Description:

Abraham Salomon's descendants, Abraham-Behor (1829-1889) and Nisim (1830-1889) were partners in banking. As a rival to the Ottoman Bank, The Camondo Family established the Ottoman Empire Company-i Umumiyesi (Societe Generale de l'Empire Ottoman) with a capital of two million pounds in 1864. Because of the establishment of the Credit General Ottoman Bank in 1868, the Camondo Brothers decided to move the bank to Paris with the idea that the Bank should have absolutely no external links. Abraham-Behor became president of the institution of the Alliance Israelite Universelle in 1864. This institution – which instructed students in French in the name of modernization and westernization – was founded to improve the material and spiritual conditions of the Jews and to ensure the spread of education in İstanbul.

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Photograph

Citation of this web page:

"Portrait of Abraham Behor And Nisim Camondo" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2025.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;tr;179;en

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MWNF Working Number: TR2 175