The Camondo Family

History The collector Moïse de Camondo, born in Istanbul in 1860, descended from a family of Sephardic Jews. In the early nineteenth century, the Camondos founded a bank that became one of the largest in the Ottoman Empire. In 1867, they were ennobled by Victor Emmanuel II in recognition of their financial support of the unification of Italy.
The Camondo brothers Abraham-Behor and Nissim settled in (...)
The origins of the family and the bank The Camondos were a family of Sephardic Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, who found refuge in the Ottoman Empire after persecution by the Inquisition. After a few years in Trieste in the late eighteenth century, they returned to Istanbul. In 1802, Isaac Camondo founded a bank there, which his brother Abraham Salomon inherited in 1832. The Camondos established business relations with the (...)
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