Benjamin II (Benjamin, Israel Joseph). Ma’asei Yisrael.

(TRAVEL).

Hirsch Petzall

Lyck

1859

First Hebrew Edition. Translated from the German by David Gordon. With Large Folding Map of the Author’s Travels.

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 the Holy Land, journeying on into Egypt, 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.