Benjamin II (Benjamin, Israel Joseph). Masa’e Yisrael.

(TRAVEL)

Hirsch Petzall

Lyck

1859

First Hebrew Edition. With Large Folding Map of the Author’s Travels. Translated from the German by David Gordon (Editor of HaMagid and leader of the Chibat Zion Movement)

Vinograd, Lyck 8 (without noting the map).

In search of the Lost Ten Tribes, this indefatigable traveler, (who styled himself Benjamin of Tudela II in emulation of the medieval Spanish traveler Benjamin of Tudela), set out for Egypt, visiting the Holy Land, and then journeying on into Syria, Kurdistan, Persia, India and China. Returning to Europe by way of Afghanistan, he also traveled to Algeria, Morocco and Ethiopia. The work contains a wealth of information concerning Jewish settlement world-wide. This copy with the often missing map of the author’s travels.