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Jewish Travellers
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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 travellers by J D Eisenstein, this volume begins with the ninth century. After the sixteenth century geographical discoveries had made the whole world familiar to most people. Consequently, the wandering Jew becomes less the diplomatist or scientist but still remains a link between the scattered members of the Diaspora. The volume ends in the middle of the eighteenth century and taken as a whole provides a survey of Jewish travel during the Middle Ages. For this translation, some of the texts have been abridged, whilst retaining many of the original notes.
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INDEX
Aaron, his tomb, 127; Bechor Shor, 41; ben Asher, 146; Cohen b. Matathias, 203; the Karaïte, 227
Abahu, R., 143
Abbasids, 62
Abba Areka, 78; Hilkiah, 124
Abd er-Rahman, the Ummayad, 25; III, Caliph of Cordova, xiii, 22, 25
Abelin, 144
Abner ben Ner, 92, 120, 135
Abraham’s tomb. See Machpelah
Abraham, R., the astronomer, 47; the dyer,
Abraham, Abu Tahir, 47; Benjamin, 356; de Castro, 259; Zimori of Asfi-Safi, 292, 296
Absalom’s Monument, 99, 241
Abtalion, R., 41, 109
Abulabaz (Abu-1-Abbas), the elephant, 1
Abu’l-Faraj, 113
Abu’l-Qasim, 2
Abydos, 39
Abyssinia, and 71, 102, 153, 238–9, 247 see Cush.
Academies. See under Alexandria, Baghdad, Basra, Constantinople, El-Anbar (Pumbedito), Jabneh, Misr, Paris
Acre (Acco), 86, 89, 97, 115, 121, 125–6, 142, 144
Acts of the Apostles, xi
Addiel = Uzziel q. v., 16
Aden, xv, 4, 60, 100, 102, 246–7
Adler, E. N., 209, 373; H. M., xv, 38; M. N., xv, 38
Adrammelech, 109, 122, 149
Ahaz, 19
Aholiab, 11
Aix la Chapelle, xii
Akabia b. Mahalallel, 125, 144
Akbara, 124
Akiba, R., 124, 141–2
Alani = Georgians, 49
Albacete, 325
Aldeka, 301, 205, 308–14
Aleppo, 85, 126
Alexander the Great, 93
Alexandria, 93, 113, 157–67, 218–23, 268, 334
Al Gingaleh = Cranganore q.v.
Alhanika = Rephidim (...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Copyright Page
- PREFACE
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- EGINHARD OF FRANCONIA, A.D. 801
- IBN KHORDÂDHBEH, c. 817
- ELDAD THE DANITE, c. A.D. 880
- THE EPISTLE OF R. CHISDAI IBN SHAPRUT TO THE KING OF THE KHOZARS AND THE KING’S REPLY, c. 960
- JUDAH HALEVI, 1085–1140
- BENJAMIN OF TUDELA, 1165–73
- RABBI PETACHIA OF RATISBON, 1170–87
- RABBI JACOB BEN R. NATHANIEL HA COHEN. TWELFTH CENTURY
- THE CAIRO GENIZA. THIRTEENTH CENTURY
- ITINERARY OF RABBI SAMUEL BEN SAMSON IN 1210
- JUDAH-AL-HARIZI, c. 1216
- RABBI JACOB, THE MESSENGER OF RABBI JECHIEL OF PARIS, 1238–44
- ISAAC BEN JOSEPH IBN CHELO. THE ROADS FROM JERUSALEM, 1334
- ELIJAH OF FERRARA, 1434
- RABBI MESHULLAM BEN R. MENAHEM OF VOLTERRA, 1481. I. II
- OBADIAH DA BERTINORO, 1487–90
- DAVID REUBENI, 1523–27
- JEMSEL THE KARAÏTE, 1641
- DAVID AZULAI, 1755
- NOTES
- INDEX