from the Muslim world Jews outside Europe under Axis occupation List ofJews from the Arab World Mizrahi Jews "PDF: The Itinerary of Benjamin ofTudela trans...
(1998). "Jews, Pilgrimage, and the Christian Cult of Saints: Benjamin ofTudela and His Contemporaries." After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early...
Benjamin ofTudela (fl. c. 12th century), also known as Benjamin ben Jonah, was a medieval Jewish traveler who visited Europe, Asia, and Africa inthe twelfth...
inthe 12th century. Benjamin ofTudela also gives the account of David Alroi, the messianic leader from central Kurdistan, who rebelled against the Seljuk...
ThehistoryoftheJewsin Albania dates back about 2,000 years. According to historian Apostol Kotani (Albania and theJews): "Jews may have first arrived...
Syrian Jews had predominantly two origins: those who inhabited Syria from early times and the Sephardim who fled to Syria after the expulsion oftheJews from...
where the first Jews lived inthe city. In 1170, Benjamin ofTudela reported that there were 500 Jewsin Thessaloniki. Inthe following centuries, the native...
ThehistoryoftheJews and Judaism inthe Land of Israel begins inthe 2nd millennium BCE, when Israelites emerged as an outgrowth of southern Canaanites...
BCE. Inthe 12th century, Benjamin ofTudela, a Sephardi Jew (Jewsof Spanish and Portuguese descent) who was a medieval adventurer from Navarre, in present-day...
of Derbent was described by travelers including Benjamin ofTudelainthe 12th century and William of Rubruck inthe 13th. Inthe 18th century, Jews were...
ThehistoryoftheJewsin Ethiopia refers to people in Ethiopia who practice Judaism or have Jewish ancestry. This history goes back millennia. The largest...
Egyptian Jews constitute both one ofthe oldest and one ofthe youngest Jewish communities inthe world. The historic core ofthe Jewish community in Egypt...
at the time ofthe Islamic conquest in 630 C.E. Inthe 12th century, the Jewish traveler-adventurer Benjamin ofTudela mentions 500 Jews living in Qays...
sanction. Both Benjamin ofTudela and Pethahiah of Regensburg visited Baghdad, and have left interesting information regarding theJews there. According to...
The Georgian Jews were considered ethnically and culturally distinct from neighboring Mountain Jews. As a result of a major emigration wave inthe 1990s...
Cochin Jews (also known as Malabar Jews or Kochinim from Hebrew: יְהוּדֵֽי־קוֹצִֽ׳ין, romanized: Yehudey Kochin) are the oldest group ofJewsin India...
Jewish communities in Pisa, Livorno, and Siena. While the evidence ofJews living in Tuscany inthe Roman Era is scant, Benjamin ofTudela recorded finding...
to in documents from the Middle Ages. Benjamin ofTudela was a Jew from Tudela, inthe Kingdom of Navarre, who travelled to Persia and Arabia inthe 12th...