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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1119: Jewish Travellers in Europe and Asia in the High Middle Ages

Wednesday 14 July 2010, 11.15-12.45

Moderator/Chair:Eva Frojmovic, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Leeds
Paper 1119-aJewish Travellers on the Rhine in the 12th-13th Centuries
(Language: English)
Joseph Isaac Lifshitz, Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center, Tel Aviv University / Shalem Center, Jerusalem
Index terms: Archaeology - General, Daily Life, Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Abstract

This session is devoted to the experience of Jews travelling long distances in a non-Jewish world. Lifshitz's paper will engage with the experience of Rhine travellers who were Jewish, and their participation in the rise of commercial shipping.