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The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century
48 pp.
| Farrar |
April, 2005 |
TradeISBN 0-374-37754-5$17.00
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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.