1517 Safed pogrom was an attack against the Jews of Safed in 1517.[1]
- ^ Neil Asher Silberman (March 2001). Heavenly Powers: Unraveling the Secret of the Kabbalah. Castle Books. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-7858-1324-8.
The bloodiest outbreak occurred in Safed in January 1517, when a mob of local Muslims, inflamed by their former overlords and by rumors of the defeat of the Ottomans in Cairo, led an open rebellion with great bloodshed in an attempt by the now-dispossessed local nobles to reassume control. A crowd of Muslims inflamed by their former overlords murdered the Ottoman governor and plundered the Jewish Quarter, killing or wounding many in the community.