Travels in the Middle Ages

Benjamin of Tudela ISBN: 0-934710-07-4

Italica Press - Hardcopy 170pp $20.00

From 1165 to 1173 Benjamin of Tudela journeyed from his native Navarre through the greater part of the then-known world. He visited about 300 cities including Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Damascus, Baghdad and beyond, meeting their disparate Jewish communities and recording his impressions of the governments, customs, traditions, professions and products of the lands he found. Originally written in Hebrew, his Itinerary, a landmark of medieval travel literature, was translated into Latin and later became a best-seller of Jewish printing. This revised English translation was published by Pangloss Press in 1987 Maps, introductions, and notes.