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Shulevitz, Uri

The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century

(2) 4-6 The twelfth-century Spanish-Jewish traveler Benjamin of Tudela ranged around the greater Mediterranean world, chiefly interested in visiting Jerusalem and other, scattered Jewish communities. Shulevitz provides an eye-filling tour of the medieval Mediterranean with a tacit reminder, for non-Jews and Jews alike, of the breadth and constraints of Jewish life in the Diaspora.

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