Jews and Hokkien

We talked about Phanariots on Monday- but that speaks to a more general pattern of who thrives when elites are replaced.

Jews were expelled from Vienna in 1670, but the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I needed money. So he let Samuel Oppenheimer back in.

A lot of my childhood friends are Hokkien. Howqua was a Hokkien man, once the richest man in the world. Much of his life parallel’s Samuel Oppenheimer’s.

A financial go-between for the Emperor, but despised enough to have their inheritances taken away.