Travail In An Arab Land /

""Samuel Romanelli was a free spirit who spent most of his life traveling in search of adventure, knowledge, and patrons for his literary endeavors. . . [D]uring a voyage to Italy in 1786, he became stranded in Gibraltar ... and circumstances forced him to join a merchant traveling to Moro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Romanelli, Samuel Aaron, 1757-1814
Other Authors: Stillman, Norman A., 1945-, Stillman, Yedida Kalfon, 1946-1998
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Hebrew
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1989.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Romanelli, Samuel Aaron, > 1757-1814.
Geschichte (1786-1790)
Erlebnisbericht
Joden.
Travel.
Jews.
Ethnic relations.
Juifs > Maroc.
Jews > Morocco.
Juden.
Marokko
Morocco.
Maroc > Relations interethniques.
Maroc > Descriptions et voyages.
Morocco > Ethnic relations.
Morocco > Description and travel.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:""Samuel Romanelli was a free spirit who spent most of his life traveling in search of adventure, knowledge, and patrons for his literary endeavors. . . [D]uring a voyage to Italy in 1786, he became stranded in Gibraltar ... and circumstances forced him to join a merchant traveling to Morocco. Through misadventure, he lost his passport and was retained in that country for four years, the story of which forms Travail in an Arab Land. This first-person account is an important and unique work treating the life and culture of Jews in 18th-century Morocco.""--Jewish Book N
Physical Description:1 online resource (238 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780817388348

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