Note 63 — SKETCHES OF JEWISH LOYALTY, BRAVERY AND PATRIOTISM IN THE SOUTH AMERICAN COLONIES AND THE WEST INDIES.
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Dr. E. Carmoly, in his essay on Don Joseph Nasi, Duc de Naxos (Brussels, 1855), traces the relationship of this eminent personage even to American shores, where the Nasis flourished. The word Nasi in Hebrew indicates chief, or prince. See also Fuerst's Orient, XII (1851-2), p. 335; Steinschneider's Hammaskir, II (1859), p. 33.