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To come to the land [electronic resource]

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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

Title To come to the land [electronic resource] : immigration and settlement in sixteenth-century Eretz-Israel / Abraham David
translated by Dena Ordan.
Publisher Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press
Creation Date c1999
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.
English
Content 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
Series Judaic studies series
Extent 1 online resource (326 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010701833505171
MARC RECORDS

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