Share the story of what Open Access means to you
University of Michigan needs your feedback to better understand how readers are using openly available ebooks. You can help by taking a short, privacy-friendly survey.
To Come to the Land: Immigration and Settlement in 16th-Century Eretz-Israel
Abraham David
You don't have access to this book. Please try to log in with your institution.
Log in
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 region. This openness to immigration offered a solution to the crisis Iberian Jews were undergoing as a result of their expulsion from Spain and the forced conversions in Portugal. Within a few years of the Ottoman conquest, Jews of Spanish extraction, many of them clustered in urban areas, dominated the Jewish communities of Eretz-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 is his examination of the cities of Jerusalem and Safed and David's succinct biographies of leading Jewish personalities throughout the region.
-
Series Page
-
Title Page
-
Copyright Page
-
Dedication
-
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
-
5. The Jewish Quarter
-
6. The Communities
-
7. Communal Organization
-
8. Intellectual Life
-
-
Safed
-
9. The Jewish Quarter
-
10. The Communities
-
11. Communal Organization
-
12. Centers of Jewish Learning—Structure and Program of Study
-
13. Brief Biographies of Rabbinic Personalities in Eretz-Israel
-
-
Notes
-
Glossary
-
Bibliography
-
Index of Persons and Places
-
Subject Index
Citable Link
Published: 1999
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
- 9780817385200 (ebook)