Jewish Travellers

Elkan Nathan Adler

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781134286058
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Histoire
• Subtopic: Histoire du peuple juif

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.

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