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Map of the Land of Israel
Solomon Adeni
ca. 1611
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Solomon Adeni (also known as Shelomo bar Yehoshua) was a Yemenite Jewish writer and talmudist. When he was four years old his family moved to Palestine. He lived in Safed and Jerusalem and eventually settled in Hebron. Poverty stricken, he worked on his commentary on the Mishnah, Melekhet Shelomoh (The Work of Solomon) for thirty years. Though it was not published until the end of the nineteenth century, Melekhet Shelomo is included today in many standard editions of the Mishnah.
These depictions of Jewish women from Adrianople (present day Edirne, Turkey) is from a travelogue by French geographer Nicolas Nicolay, who is believed to have done his own illustrations. Considered…
The author had a tradition from his ancestors, also based on a book of his genealogy that was lost in all the upheavals of the expulsion and the persecutions, that this holy and lofty family, whose…