- 120 pages
- English
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Seafaring and the Jews
About this book
This collection studies Jewish involvement in seafaring from Biblical, through Greco-Roman, Medieval and Early Modern periods to the present. This broad historical perspective allows a closer look at various attitudes of Jews to maritime activities, especially as shipowners and traders in the Mediterranean regions.
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Index
AbbaGurion, 30, 31
Abdul-Aziz, 88
Abdul-Hamit II, 88
Abraham of Saragossa, 38
Abravanel, 42
Aczel, Eliezer, 98
Aden, 40
Aden, 48, 98
Adriatic, 20
Aegean, 17, 20
Africa, 10
Africa, East, 40
Africa, North, 38
Agrippa I, 20
Ahab, 14
Ahaziah, 10
Akko, 8, 31
Akko-Ptolemais, 19
Alexander, The Great, 19
Alexandria, 3, 5, 19, 31, 33, 36, 50, 98
Algiers, 62, 65, 67
Altona, 62
Amarantus, 33
America, North, 97
Amoraic, 30
Amsterdam, 61, 64, 67
Angel, Shemuel, 85
Apion, 17
Arabacilar, 84
Arabia, 40
Aramaeans, 7
Archelaus, 20
Arnavutköy, 87
Arslan, 81
Arward, 7
Asher, 7
Ashkelon, 19, 31
Ashkenazi, Avraham, 83, 84
Ashkenazi, Ya'aqov, 84
Asia Minor, 20
Asia, 10
Asia, South East, 40
Assyrians, 8
Athens, 18
Athlit, 10
Atid Navigation Co., 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100
Avraham d'Arce, 83, 84
Avraham of Üsküdar, 79
Avraham Zabaro, 85, 86, 87
Ayvan Sarayn, 87, 88
Azap Kapisi, 88
Baal, 6
Bâb al-Mandeb...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Full Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Hebrew Seafaring in the Biblical Period
- Seafaring and Jews in Graeco-Roman Palestine: Realistic and Symbolic Dimensions
- Nautica in Talmudic Palestine?
- Medieval Jewish Seafaring between East and West
- Salvage in the Eleventh and Twelfth-Century Mediterranean: Geniza Evidence and Its Legal Implications
- Shipping and Toleration: The Emergence of Jewish Shipowners in the Early Modern Period
- Boatmen's and Fishermen's Guilds in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul
- The Contribution of Jewish-German Immigrants to Maritime Development in Israel
- Notes on Contributors
- Abstracts
- Index