Jewish travellers
By: edited, with an introduction, by Elkan Nathan Adler
Series: Broadway travellers; Broadway travellers
Publisher: G. Routledge & Sons, Ltd.
Published: 1930
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Medieval Travel; Description and travel; Travel; History
Notes: The texts and notes are in large part translated from J.D. Eisenstein's Ozar massaoth ("Treasure of travel"), a collection of 24 Hebrew texts. "[The present collection] begins with the ninth and ends in the middle of the eighteenth century ... The main object ... has been to give a conspectus of Jewish travel during the middle ages." cf. Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Microfilm. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Libraries, 2018. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Master negative: 2018-10006. No. 6 on a reel of 7 titles.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Eginhard of Franconia, A.D. 801; title: Ibn Khordâdhbeh, c. 817; title: Eldad the Danite, c. A.D. 880, The Epistle of R. Chisdai Ibn Shaprut to the King of the Khozars and the King's Reply, c. 960; title: Judah Halevi, 1085-1140; title: Benjamin of Tudela, 1165-73; title: Rabbi Jacob ben R. Nathaniel ha Cohen, twelfth century; title: The Cairo Geniza, thirteenth century; title: Itinerary of Rabbi Samuel ben Samson in 1210; title: Judah-al-Harizi, c. 1216; title: Rabbi Jacob, the Messenger of Rabbi Jechiel of Paris, 1238-44; title: Isaac ben Joseph ibn Chelo. The roads from Jeresalem, 1334; title: Elijah of Ferrara, 1434; title: Rabbi Meshullam ben R. Menahem of Volterra, 1481; title: Obadiah da Bertinoro, 1487-90; title: David Reubeni, 1523-27; title: Jemsel the Karaïte, 1641; title: David Azulai, 1755; title: Notes; title: Index.