To come to the land : immigration and settlement in sixteenth-century Eretz-Israel / Abraham David ; translated by Dena Ordan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daṿid, Avraham.

Series:

Judaic studies series.

Judaic studies series

Standardized Title:

ʻAliyah ṿe-hityashvut be-Erets-Yiśraʼel ba-meʼah ha-16. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Palestine--History--16th century.

Jews.

Jews--Jerusalem--History--16th century.

Jews--Israel--Tsefat--History--16th century.

Rabbis--Palestine--Biography.

Rabbis.

Jerusalem--Ethnic relations.

Jerusalem.

Tsefat (Israel)--Ethnic relations.

Tsefat (Israel).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

To Come to the Land makes available in English a vast body of research, previously available only in Hebrew, on the early history of the land now known as Israel. Abraham David here 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. After the Ottoman Turks conquered Syria, Palestine, and Egypt in 1516, the Ottoman regime, unlike their Mamluk predecessors, encouraged economic development and settlement throughout the regi

Contents:

Contents; Maps and Tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Immigration to Eretz-Israel; 2. Distribution of Settlement; 3. Economic Life; 4. Governmental Policy Toward the Jews; JERUSALEM; SAFED; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index of Persons and Places; Subject Index

Notes:

"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)."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-290) and index.

ISBN:

9780817385200

0817385207

9780585269009

0585269009

OCLC:

648711522

Publisher Number:

heb40233 hdl