Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages: 19 Firsthand Accounts - Paperback

Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages: 19 Firsthand Accounts - Paperback

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Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages: 19 Firsthand Accounts - Paperback

Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages: 19 Firsthand Accounts - Paperback

$22.95

by Elkan Nathan Adler (Editor)

This fascinating book vividly portrays the wandering Jew as a very real character in the great drama of history. In nineteen engaging narratives, some twelve centuries old, travelling Jewish scholars, merchants, pilgrims, ambassadors, and others are revealed to be men of many moods and missions. In these pages you will meet:
Isaac, an interpreter in the service of the Emperor Charlemagne, who in the year 802 escorted an elephant named Abulabaz, a gift to the Emperor from the caliph Harun ar-Rashid, over the Alps to the Emperor's court.
Eldad the Danite, who lived on the Gulf of Aden and in the late ninth century was shipwrecked and seized by cannibals, though he lived to tell the tale.
Benjamin of Tudela, the great Hebrew satirical poet of the thirteenth century, whose masterpiece, the Tachkemoni, is filled with clever, sometimes bitter jibes at the notables encountered in his many travels.
Elijah of Ferrara, who describes fifteenth-century life in Jerusalem and tells of the plague in Egypt and Palestine that carried away his sons and grandson.
Rich in human experience and historic detail, their accounts and 14 more revealing narratives offer rare perspectives on the unfolding drama of life in Europe, the Near East, and North Africa in the Middle Ages. This is a volume that will appeal to a broad spectrum of readers, from those interested in travel and adventure to those interested in cultural history and Judaica.

Number of Pages: 432
Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.45 x 5.39 IN
Publication Date: November 30, 2011

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