Isaac Jesurun

Isaac Jesurun was a Dalmatian merchant who descended from a Marrano family which fled the Spanish Inquisition and settled mainly in Amsterdam and Hamburg. Issac was a victim of a false accusation when he was accused by a Christian woman, who had robbed and killed the daughter of a Christian merchant of Ragusa, of having persuaded her to commit the crime in order to provide blood for the celebration of the Jewish holy day. Isaac was taken prisoner on September 19, 1622, and was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. After three years several of the judges who had sentenced him died suddenly, and the others regarded this as a punishment from God, and released Jesurun. Several years later he died in Jerusalem.