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Emissaries from the Holy Land : the Sephardic diaspora and the practice of pan-Judaism in the eighteenth century /
For Jews in every corner of the world, the Holy Land has always been central. But that conviction was put to the test in the eighteenth century when Jewish leaders in Palestine and their allies in Istanbul sent rabbinic emissaries on global fundraising missions. From the shores of the Mediterranean...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Network of beneficence : Istanbul, Jerusalem, and the philanthropic network
- Agents of philanthropy : emissaries from the Holy Land and the communities of the diaspora
- Ideological foundations
- Solidarity contested : ethnic division and the quest for unity
- End of an era : the transformation of the philanthropic network in the nineteenth century
- Epilogue : pan-Judaism.