Diario di un viaggio in Terra Santa (Diary of a Journey to the Holy Land): On the Jews of London

Moise Vita Cafsuto

ca. 1735

“There are two synagogues of the German Jews, and one of the Portuguese, twenty-four cubits broad and forty-two long. Each one has its own management; thus the income of one is not mixed with that of the other, and each maintains its own staff and its poor respectively. Together they are estimated as amounting to about six thousand souls. They…

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Moise Vita Cafsuto

ca. 1700–ca. 1760

Little is known about Moise Vita Cafsuto (Cassuto) besides the fact that he was a wealthy merchant from Florence. However, he did leave behind a detailed diary of his travels, written in Italian and addressed to his wife. The first part of Cafsuto’s account, written in 1735, tells the story of a year-and-a-half journey to Palestine between 1733 and 1735. The second part describes a westbound journey that took place between 1741 and 1743.

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