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Jewish Travellers

Elkan Nathan Adler

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English
Routledge
04 March 2015
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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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   abridged edition
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 138mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   521g
ISBN:   9781138878983
ISBN 10:   1138878987
Pages:   440
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Elkan Nathan Adler

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