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Yehuda b. Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf Castro

Metadata

Gender
Male
Dates
Active dates
11 February 1548–29 January 1549 CE
Social role
  • Merchant
Other name
Yehuda b. Avraham b. Yosef Castro

Description / Bio

16th-century Jewish merchant with presumably some connections to the Ottoman state, perhaps as a tax collector.

Alan Elbaum and Yusuf Umrethwala, "Yehuda b. Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf Castro," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/yehuda-b-ibrahim-castro/, accessed February 9, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/yehuda-b-ibrahim-castro/