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Samuel Usque
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Samuel Usque (Lisbon, c.1500 - after 1555 in Italy or Ottoman Palestine) was a Portuguese converso Jewish author who settled in Ferrara.[1] Usque was a trader.[2]
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His major work is the Consolação às Tribulações de Israel ("Consolation for the Tribulations of Israel"), Ferrara, 1553.[3][4][5] He appears to be the only one of the contemporaries of Solomon ibn Verga to have made use of the latter's Scepter of Judah.[6] Usque makes a connection between forcible conversion and the rise of Protestantism.[7] His work depicts the Inquisition as a monster threatening Europe, indicating common cause between Portuguese Jews and the Netherlands.[8] He bemoans the persecution and expulsion suffered by Jewish communities, and expresses his hope to reach the Holy Land.
He is credited with coining the epithet "Mother of Israel" (Judaeo-Spanish: Madre de Israel) for the Greek city of Thessaloniki.[9]
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