Le logge sefardite nell’Impero ottomano

Abstract

Sephardic Lodges in the Ottoman Empire

Historical studies on Freemasonry are a niche, an even more valid assumption when it comes to the history of Sephardic Freemasonry in the Ottoman Empire. The present exploratory contribution, regarding the topic under discussion, aims to fill this gap by proposing a panorama of the Sephardic Masonic reality in the empire through the exploration of the role of the Sephardic lodges during one of the most outstanding events in the Ottoman history of beginning of the 20th century, the revolution of 1908, analyzing the biographies of the Freemasons who worked for its success and the international relations woven by the same lodges. The investigation has been carried out through the study of the archival sources of the Documentary Center of Historical Memory, special section, of Salamanca and of the Masonic printed sources of the time.

Received: 15/07/2022

Admitted: 10/12/2022