The Jews of Arab Lands

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Jewish Publication Society, 1979 - 473 pagine

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MIDDLEEASTERN JEWRY
22
MEDITERRANEAN JEWRY
40
THE JEWS OF ARAB LANDS
64
THE JEWS
95
From the Autobiography of a Jewish Apostate
229
THE JEWS OF ARAB LANDS
255
The Fall of the Ilkhanids Jewish Vizier
262
A Flemish Scholars Observations on the Jews
287
the Jews of Safed for Tax Purposes
299
A Jewish Emissary from Morocco Asks to Present
307
The Jews of Mogadore Pay Their Poll Tax
368
Baghdadi Jews in the Service of British Merchants
375
A Rabbi Is Accused of Disrespect to Muhammad
385
The British Consul in Egypt Tries to Intercede
399
Instructions from H B M s Ambassador to Constantinople
405
INDEX
453

Don Joseph Attempts to Rebuild Tiberias
293

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Pagina 186 - But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
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