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Jewish travellers /
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 i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge Curzon,
2005, ©1930.
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| Colección: | Broadway travellers ;
12. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | The texts and notes are in large part translated from J.D. Eisenstein's Ozar massaoth ("Treasure of travel"), a collection of 24 Hebrew texts. "[The present collection] begins with the ninth and ends in the middle of the eighteenth century ... The main object ... has been to give a conspectus of Jewish travel during the middle ages." cf. Pref. Originally published in 1930. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 391 pages) : viii plates (including frontispiece) |
| ISBN: | 0203005716 9780203005712 |