By Abraham David
To Come to the Land makes to be had in English an unlimited physique of research,
formerly on hand basically in Hebrew, at the early background of the land now
often called Israel.
Abraham David the following specializes in the Spanish and Portuguese Jews who fled
the Iberian Peninsula in the course of the sixteenth century, tracing the beginnings of
Sephardic effect within the land of Israel.
After the Ottoman Turks conquered Syria, Palestine, and Egypt in 1516,
the Ottoman regime, not like their Mamluk predecessors, inspired economic
improvement and cost in the course of the zone. This openness to immigration
provided an answer to the obstacle Iberian Jews have been present process as a result
in their expulsion from Spain and the compelled conversions in Portugal. Within
many years of the Ottoman conquest, Jews of Spanish extraction, many of
them clustered in city components, ruled the Jewish groups of Eretz-Israel.
In this conscientiously researched examine, David examines the lasting impression
made by way of those enterprising Jewish settlers at the advertisement, social, and
highbrow lifetime of the realm below early Ottoman rule. Of specific interest
is his exam of the towns of Jerusalem and Safed and David's succinct
biographies of major Jewish personalities through the region.
This first English translation of a ground-breaking Hebrew paintings provides
a accomplished assessment of an important bankruptcy within the heritage of Israel
and explores a number of the components that delivered to it the simplest minds of the
age. crucial for students of overdue Medieval Jewish history, to return to
the Land can be a big source for students of intellectual
historical past, because it offers history the most important to an realizing of the intellectual
flourishing of the period.
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Extra resources for To Come to the Land: Immigration and Settlement in 16th-Century Eretz-Israel
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More than one traveler noted this phenomenon, including Obadiah of Bertinoro, who remarked on the presence of fourteen Jews aboard ship on the Messina-Rhodes leg of the journey,55 and Elijah of Pesaro, who commented in a letter (1563) that "every ship contains large numbers of Jews. "S? It appears then that where feasible Jews traveled in groups. ORIGINS OF IMMIGRATION The sixteenth century witnessed a significant change in the magnitude of immigration to Eretz-Israel. The interrelated factors underlying this shift included, on the one hand, the atmosphere of deep despair among the Jews expelled from the Iberian peninsula in the late fifteenth century,S8 which was accompanied by a concomitant intensification in messianic expectations (as we shall see below).
Kadesh Naftali: There is evidence for a sixteenth-century Jewish settlement here. 55 Shaqif subdistrict Jews also resided in northern Eretz-Israel in the sanjak of Shaqifpresent-day southern Lebanon. I:Ia~bayah: A Jewish settlement existed here prior to and during the sixteenth century. 57 Tiberias subdistrict Another Jewish population concentration was to be found in the Tiberias district, but its dimensions never reached those of the Safed region. Tiberias: Until nearly midcentury, there is simply no information extant for Jewish settlement in Tiberias.
About our proposed journey hence, to go to dwell under the pinions of the Almighty, at the bidding of the honored lord, the Prince, in Tiberias ... so as to give proper order to this journey.... [English translation cited from C. Roth, The House of Nasi: The Duke of Naxos (Philadelphia, 1948), 126-27, slightly revisedf3 This undated epistle almost certainly belongs to the context of Pope Pius V's (1566-69) anti-Jewish edicts. Not content with reinstating all of his predecessor Paul IV's anti-Jewish measures, in 1569 Pius took the more extreme step of expelling the Jews from Papal States.