Samuel "Batto" Sfez (Arabic: باتو سفس) (Hebrew: באטו ספז) was a young Tunisian Jew who worked as a cart driver for Nassim Shamama, the caid or officially...
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Nassim Shamama (section Batto Sfez affair)
rate of 12%. In June 1856, Nassim Shamama became involved in the Batto Sfez Affair which concerned the trial and subsequent execution of his coachman...
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I and the Batto Sfez Affair and its aftermath that allowed France and England to pressure the Bey into granting reforms. Samuel "Batto" Sfez was a Jewish...
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built. 1840 – Military academy founded at Bardo by Ahmed Bey 1857 – Batto Sfez Affair. 1860 – Old city walls demolished. Tunisia's first official printing...
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affairs of the Regency, and successive Beys had sought to avoid giving France or any other power reason to intervene further. However the Batto Sfez Affair...
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of his coreligionists. That year, however Mohammed Bey had a Jew named Batto Sfez executed for blasphemy. This execution aroused both Jews and Christians...
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