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The Book of Jerusalem Journeys
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In 1930, Chaim Elazar Shapiro (Spira), the Hasidic rebbe of Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (today, Mukachevo, Ukraine), traveled by rail to Vienna and Trieste and by ship to Alexandria, where he and his…

Contributor:

Moshe Goldstein

Places:

Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)

Date:

1930

Subjects:

Lag b’Omer, Mourning, Rabbis, Zionism, Violence

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Travel Writing, Memoirs & Diaries
Letter on Touring the Land of Israel
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I went to the grave of the Tanna Ila, a man from the village of Yavneh who is mentioned in the tractates Berakhot and Avot, and afterwards we went to the grave of the pious Tanna R. Judah bar Ila‘i…

Contributor:

Isaiah Horowitz

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1621

Subjects:

Israel/Israelis, Travel, Talmud, Rabbis

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Travel Writing, Letters