Emissaries from the Holy Land : the Sephardic diaspora and the practice of pan-Judaism in the eighteenth century / Matthias B. Lehmann.

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...

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Main Author: Lehmann, Matthias B., 1970- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
Series:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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