Emissaries from the Holy Land: The Sephardic Diaspora and the Practice of Pan-Judaism in the Eighteenth Century

by Matthias 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 to the port cities of the Atlantic seaboard, from the Caribbean to India, these emmissaries solicited donations for the impoverished of Israel's homeland...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804789657
• ISBN13: 9780804789653
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"