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Jewish Travellers book cover

1st Edition

Jewish Travellers

Edited By Elkan Nathan Adler Copyright 2005
440 Pages
by Routledge

434 Pages
by Routledge

440 Pages
by Routledge
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First published in 1930. The wandering Jew is a very real character in the great drama of history. He has travelled as nomad and settler, as fugitive and conqueror, as exile and colonist and as merchant and scholar. Of necessity bilingual and therefore the master of many languages, the Jew was the ideal commercial traveller and interpreter. Based on the volume of 24 Hebrew texts of Jewish... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Eginhard of Franconia, AD 801  3. Ibn Khordadhbeh, c. 817  4. Eldad the Danite, c. AD 880  5. The Epistle of R Chidsai Ibn Shaprut to the King of the Khozars and the King's Reply, c. 960  6. Judah Halevi, 1085-1140  7. Benjamin of Tudela, 1165-73  8. Rabbi Petachia of Ratisbon, 1170-87  9. Rabbi Jacob ben R Nathaniel ha Cohen. Twelfth Century  10. The Cairo Geniza. Thirteenth Century  11. Itinerary of Rabbi Samuel Ben Samson in 1210  12. Judah-al-Harizi, c. 1216  13. Rabbi Jacob, the Messenger of Rabbi Jechiel of Paris, 1238-44  14. Isaac ben Joseph ibn Chelo. The Roads from Jerusalem, 1334  15. Elijah of Ferrara, 1434  16. Rabbi Meshullam ben R Menahem of Volterra, 1481.  Obadiah da Bertinoro, 1487-90.  David Reubeni, 1523-27.  Jemsel the Karaite, 1641.  David Azulai, 1755

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Elkan Nathan Adler

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