Abstract
The economic history of the Iberian diaspora as a result of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 was discussed. Most of the exiles migrated over land to Portugal, Navarre and Provence. Some went on perilous sea voyages to North Africa, the Italian Peninsula, the eastern Mediterranean islands and the eastern Mediterranean mainland under the Ottoman Empire. These exiles enriched the places they settled as they worked a variety of professions such as arts and crafts, medicine, textile manufacturing, political and financial advising, money-lending and money-changing.