Modaath Zoth Ba'Aretz

(TEN LOST TRIBES)

(Amsterdam

1834)

FIRST EDITION

Vinograd, Amsterdam 2574

An extraordinary Letter written by the renowned leader of the Old Yishuv, Israel of Schklow, pertaining to the fate of Baruch ben Samuel of Pinsk in his search for the remnants of the Ten Tribes. R. Baruch traveled across Syria, Mesopotamia and Kurdistan, reaching Yemen in 1833. It was there, in San’a, he was executed under suspicion of espionage. This published version of the Letter details the development of the Oral Law, the bitter history of Exilic Israel, the struggle to resettle the Holy Land, and concludes with requests for prayer, charity and an increase of righteous scholars resident in the Holy Land. See Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael pp.147-48, 779-80; L. Jung, Men of the Spirit (1964) pp. 75-6