UID:
almafu_9959228993902883
Format:
1 online resource (434 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-28605-8
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1-134-28606-6
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1-280-24036-9
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9786610240364
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0-203-00571-6
Series Statement:
The broadway travellers
Content:
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 J
Note:
First published in 1930.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; PREFACE; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; EGINHARD OF FRANCONIA, A.D. 801; IBN KHORDÂDHBBH, 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 PETACHLA OF RATISBON, 1170-87; RABBI JACOB BEN R. NATHANIELHA COHEN. TWELFTH CENTURY; THE CAIRO GENIZA. THIREENTH CENTURY; ITINERARY OF RABBI SAMUEL BEN SAMSON IN 1210; JUDAH-AL-HARIZI, c. 1216
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RABBI JACOB, THE MESSENGER OF RABBI JECHIEL OF PARIS, 1238-44ISAAC BEN JOSEPH IBN CHELO. THE ROADS FROM JERUSALEM, 1334; ELIJAH OF FERRABA, 1434; RABBI MESHULLAM BEN R. MENAHEM OF VOLTERRRA, 1481. I. II; OBADKAH DA BERTINORO, 1487-90; DAVID REUBBNI, 1523-27; JEMSEL THE KARAЈІTH, 1641; DAVID AZULAL, 1755; NOTES; INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-138-87898-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-34466-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203005712
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