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Letter from Jerusalem
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Now I shall come to fulfill your desire by writing to you at length about the customs of the residents of the land of Israel; for although I also wrote to you by way of the pilgrims, and I sent them…

Contributor:

Israel of Perugia

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1517–1523

Subjects:

Israel/Israelis, Jewish identity, Sephardi, Ashkenazi, Israel-Diaspora relations

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage, Letters
A Vision of Yemen: An Ashkenazic Visitor
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[ . . . ] [A]n Ashkenazic sage came to Ṣanʿāʾ in the time of Sar Shalom al-ʿIrāqī (d. 1780) . . . and stayed at his house and ate at his table. Fearing for the Ashkenazi’s life, Sar Shalom told him…

Contributor:

Ḥayim Ḥabshūsh

Places:

Sana'a, Ottoman Empire (Sanaa, Yemen)

Date:

1894

Subjects:

Ashkenazi, Jewish identity, Arab-Jewish relations, Antisemitism, Folklore

Categories:

Reportage, Parables