Israel Joseph Benjamin. Eight Years in Asia and Africa from 1846 to 1855.

An invaluable source of information concerning the Jews of North Africa, the Near and Far East, especially India and China. On the penultimate page we find a “List of Subscribers in Bombay,” namely various members of the affluent Sassoon clan. The self-styled “Benjamin II” (after the medieval globe-trotter Benjamin of Tudela), was a native of Foltischeny, Moldavia. He died in London in abject poverty while making preparations for a second journey to the Orient. See EJ, Vol. IV, cols. 526-7.