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Discorso circa il stato de gl’Hebrei et in particolar dimoranti nell’inclita Città di Venetia (Discourse Concerning the Condition of the Jews, and in Particular Those Living in the Illustrious City of Venice): On Jewish Commerce
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The Hebrews have been taught and instructed more than any other nation in the school of hardship under the rigorous discipline of that necessity, because they are deprived of real estate, forbidden…

Contributor:

Simone Luzzatto

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1638

Subjects:

Cities, Economic life, Travel, Community, Antisemitism

Categories:

History, Political Culture, Reportage
Masa‘ot erets Yisra’el (Travels in the Land of Israel)
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Safed is in the upper Galilee, in the Naftali region, with the bulk of the city atop the mountain. Surrounding the city’s mountain are some four mountains; on two of them, all the people are…

Contributor:

Moses Basola

Places:

Ancona, Papal States (Ancona, Italy)

Date:

1521–1523

Subjects:

Travel, Cities, Economic life, Synagogue, Israel/Israelis

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Travel Writing, Reportage
An Ottoman Jewish Zionist Volunteers for the Greek Army
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Let me be frank: I was there, but as a Zionist. I thought Judaism and Zionism in particular needed to be represented in some way. It was a grand idea, a matter of defending a supreme liberty. Jews…

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Joseph Marco Baruch

Places:

Kingdom of Italy (Italy, Italy)

Date:

1897

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Zionism, Muslim-Jewish relations, War, Roman

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, Reportage