To come to the land
Subtitle: immigration and settlement in sixteenth-century Eretz-Israel
By: Abraham David ; translated by Dena Ordan.
Series: Judaic studies series
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa, Ala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Jews -- Palestine -- History -- 16th century.; Jews -- Jerusalem -- History -- 16th century.; Jews -- Israel -- Tsefat -- History -- 16th century.; Rabbis -- Palestine -- Biography.; Jerusalem -- Ethnic relations.; Tsefat (Israel) -- Ethnic relations.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Abraham David focuses on the Spanish and Portuguese Jews who fled the Iberian Peninsula during the 16th century, tracing the beginnings of Sephardic influence in the land of Israel.

In this carefully researched study, David examines the lasting impression made by these enterprising Jewish settlers on the commercial, social, and intellectual life of the area under early Ottoman rule. Of particular interest are David's examinations of the cities of Jerusalem and Safed and the succinct biographies of leading Jewish personalities throughout the region.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-290) and index.
"Parts of chapters 6 and 10 appeared in somewhat different form in Abraham David, "The Spanish Exiles in the Holy Land," in The Sephardi Legacy, ed. H. Beinart (Jerusalem, 1992)"--T.p. verso.