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Emissaries from the Holy Land - The Sephardic Diaspora and the Practice of Pan-Judaism in the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Emissaries from the Holy Land - The Sephardic Diaspora and the Practice of Pan-Judaism in the Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
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For Jews in every corner of the world, the Holy Land has always
been central. But that conviction was put to the test in the
eighteenth century when Jewish leaders in Palestine and their
allies in Istanbul sent rabbinic emissaries on global fundraising
missions. From the shores of the Mediterranean to the port cities
of the Atlantic seaboard, from the Caribbean to India, these
emmissaries solicited donations for the impoverished of Israel's
homeland.
"Emissaries from the Holy Land" explores how this eighteenth
century philanthropic network was organized and how relations of
trust and solidarity were built across vast geographic differences.
It looks at how the emissaries and their supporters understood the
relationship between the Jewish Diaspora and the Land of Israel,
and it shows how cross-cultural encounters and competing claims for
financial support involving Sephardic, Ashkenazi, and North African
emissaries and communities contributed to the transformation of
Jewish identity from 1720 to 1820.
Solidarity among Jews and the centrality of the Holy Land in
traditional Jewish society are often taken for granted. Lehmann
challenges such assumptions and provides a critical, historical
perspective on the question of how Jews in the early modern period
encountered one another, how they related to Jerusalem and the land
of Israel, and how the early modern period changed perceptions of
Jewish unity and solidarity. Based on original archival research as
well as multiple little-known and rarely studied sources,
"Emissaries from the Holy Land" offers a fresh perspective on early
modern Jewish society and culture and the relationship between the
Jewish Diaspora and Palestine in the eighteenth century.
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