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March 19, 2018

Samuel Pallache: The Great Jewish Pirate Who Took on the Spanish Fleet

Rabbi, ambassador, sailor, spy.

Born in Morocco in 1550 to Jewish refugees from Spain, Samuel Pallache, after completing his rabbinic training, embarked on an alternative career as a sailor—but soon he and his brother found they could better enrich themselves as pirates. Pallache’s activities eventually attracted the attention of the Moroccan sultan, who led him onto an even more improbable path, as Ushi Derman writes:

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