Emissaries from the Holy Land: The Sephardic Diaspora and by Matthias B. Lehmann

For Jews in each nook of the area, the Holy Land has consistently been vital. yet that conviction was once placed to the attempt within the eighteenth century whilst Jewish leaders in Palestine and their allies in Istanbul despatched rabbinic emissaries on worldwide fundraising missions. From the seashores of the Mediterranean to the port towns of the Atlantic seaboard, from the Caribbean to India, those emmissaries solicited donations for the impoverished of Israel's native land.
Emissaries from the Holy Land explores how this eighteenth century philanthropic community was once prepared and the way family of belief and team spirit have been equipped throughout significant geographic variations. It seems to be at how the emissaries and their supporters understood the connection among the Jewish Diaspora and the Land of Israel, and it indicates how cross-cultural encounters and competing claims for monetary aid regarding Sephardic, Ashkenazi, and North African emissaries and groups contributed to the transformation of Jewish id from 1720 to 1820.
Solidarity between Jews and the centrality of the Holy Land in conventional Jewish society are frequently taken with no consideration. Lehmann demanding situations such assumptions and offers a serious, old standpoint at the query of ways Jews within the early sleek interval encountered each other, how they regarding Jerusalem and the land of Israel, and the way the early sleek interval replaced perceptions of Jewish cohesion and harmony. in line with unique archival examine in addition to a number of little-known and barely studied resources, Emissaries from the Holy Land bargains a clean standpoint on early smooth Jewish society and tradition and the connection among the Jewish Diaspora and Palestine within the eighteenth century.