HESS, SIMCHA BEN YEHOSHUA (“The Magid of Zalozitch.”) Ahavath Zion [travelogue of the Holy Land]

(ISRAEL, LAND OF)

Grodno?

1790?

FIRST EDITION. Geometric diagrams on pp. 48, 52

Vinograd Grodno 9; Mehlman 1316; A.M Luncz, Jerusalem vol. IV, pp. 137-152; Yaarri, Ma’asoth Eretz Yisrael pp. 773-775; G. Scholem, Tarbiz, Vol. XXV (1957) p. 429; I. Tishby, Zion, Vol. XXXII (1967) pp. 4-8

The author migrated to Safed in 1764 but returned to Poland within a year due to the protestations of his wife. Described in detail here are his travels through Jaffa, Safed, Acre and the surrounding areas of the northern parts of Eretz Israel. Accounts of other parts of the country were added from other travelogues, by the author’s son-in-law, Solomon Dubno, who apparently edited this book