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Benjamin of Tudela (t

dā`lä), d.1173, rabbi considered the first European to approach the borders of China, b. Tudela, Spain. He traveled (1159–73) through Italy, Greece, Palestine, Persia, the western borders of China, Egypt, and Sicily. His account, Massaoth Schel Rabbi Benjamin, sheds light on the situation of Jews in Europe and Asia. Despite errors, the book is an invaluable historical source. An English translation was published in 1840 as The Itinerary of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela.

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See the critical text, tr. and ed. by M. N. Adler (1907, repr. 1964).

Benjamin of Tudela

Date of birth unknown; died 1173. Twelfth-century traveler.

A rabbi from the city of Tudela (Kingdom of Navarre), Benjamin traveled in the 1160’s and 1170’s through southern Europe, Asia Minor, Georgia, Syria, Palestine, and Mesopotamia. His travel notes are a valuable historical source containing interesting information about European trade with the East and the size of Jewish communities in various cities. These notes contain personal impressions and secondhand reports, some of which are unreliable.

WORKS

“Puteshestvie rabbi Veniamina Tudel’skogo.” In Tri evreiskikh puteshestvennika XI i XII st. St. Petersburg, 1881.

REFERENCES

Uspenskii, F. “Putevye zapiski Veniamina iz Tudely.” Annaly, Petrograd, 1923, no. 3.
Tucci, R. di. “Benjamino di Tudela i il suo viaggio.” Boll. della società geographica italiana, 1941, series 7, vol. 6.

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No references found	John Wortley (17) traces the history of Boeotia and in particular Thebes in late antiquity and the middle ages; the testimony of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela (1160) shows that, in spite of an initial decline after the fourth century A. M. Zimmerman and R. van der PAARDT (eds.): Metamorphic Reflections by Keulen, Wytse / Ancient Narrative 00) is hard to easily peg: working from the original Hebrew and other source materials, Shulevitz re- creates the story of 1159 traveler Benjamin of Tudela, who visited Rome, Jerusalem, Baghdad and more, over a hundred years before Marco Polo's more celebrated journeys. Farrar Straus Giroux by Children's Bookwatch In Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela (Masaot Binyamin ha-Aharon mi-Tudela), imagined angels of childhood are relics of a ruined past. Religious metaphor and its denial in the poetry of Yehuda Amichai by Aberbach, David / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought	Benioff zone Benioff, Hugo Benioff-Wadati zone Benítez, Jaime benitier Benito Lynch Benito Mussolini Benito Pablo Juarez Benito Pablo Juárez benitoite Beniuc, Mihai Benjamin Benjamin Apthorp Gould Benjamin Britten Benjamin Carrion Benjamin Carrión Benjamin Constant, Paul Henri Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin National Memorial benjamin gum Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Huntsman Benjamin Lee Whorf Benjamin Nathan Cardozo Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin Rush State Park Benjamin Thompson Benjamin Vautier Benjamin West Benjamin, Asher Benjamin, Judah Benjamin, Judah P Benjamin, Judah Philip Benjamin, Lazslo Benjámin, Lázsló Benjamin, Park Benjamin, Walter benjaminite Benka, Martin Benkendorf, Aleksandr Benkendorf, Aleksandr Khristoforovich Benkov, Pavel Benkov, Pavel Petrovich Benkovskii, Georgi Benn, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, Gottfried benne oil bennet Bennet, Elizabeth Bennet, Henry	Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) Benjamin Harrison Administration Benjamin Harrison Administration Benjamin Harrison VI Benjamin Harrison VI Benjamin Harrison, VI Benjamin Harrison, VI Benjamin Henry Latrobe Benjamin Huntsman Benjamin International Production Benjamin James Knapinski Benjamin Jonson Benjamin Jonson Benjamin Jowett Benjamin Kubelsky Benjamin Kubelsky Benjamin Latrobe Benjamin Lawson Hooks Benjamin Lawson Hooks Benjamin Lee Whorf Benjamin Logan Middle School Benjamin M. Spock Benjamin McLane Spock Benjamin N. Cardozo Benjamin Nathan Cardozo Benjamin Nathan Cardozo Benjamin Netanyahu Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin Peirce Benjamin R. Wilcox Benjamin Richard Civiletti Benjamin Richter Benjamin Ricketson Tucker Benjamin Robbins Curtis Benjamin Robbins Curtis Benjamin Roy Mottelson Benjamin Rumford Benjamin Rumford Benjamin Rush Benjamin Rush Benjamin Rush Benjamin Rush Benjamin Rush State Park Benjamin Rush, M.D. Benjamin Shahn Benjamin Shahn Benjamin Siegel Benjamin Spock Benjamin Spock Benjamin Thompson Benjamin Thompson Benjamin Thompson Rumford Benjamin Thompson Rumford Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford Benjamin Thomson, Count Rumford Benjamin Thomson, Count Rumford Benjamin Tucker

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John Wortley (17) traces the history of Boeotia and in particular Thebes in late antiquity and the middle ages; the testimony of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela (1160) shows that, in spite of an initial decline after the fourth century A.

M. Zimmerman and R. van der PAARDT (eds.): Metamorphic Reflections by Keulen, Wytse / Ancient Narrative

00) is hard to easily peg: working from the original Hebrew and other source materials, Shulevitz re- creates the story of 1159 traveler Benjamin of Tudela, who visited Rome, Jerusalem, Baghdad and more, over a hundred years before Marco Polo's more celebrated journeys.

Farrar Straus Giroux by Children's Bookwatch

In Travels of the Last Benjamin of Tudela (Masaot Binyamin ha-Aharon mi-Tudela), imagined angels of childhood are relics of a ruined past.

Religious metaphor and its denial in the poetry of Yehuda Amichai by Aberbach, David / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought