Mystics and Missionaries: The Jews in Palestine 1799-1840
By Sherman Lieber.
Description
Studies a key transitional period of Jewish history in Israel, detailing the activities of two growing Eastern European Jewish spiritual groups that began to immigrate to Eretz Israel beginning in 1777. The detailed geographic and demographic documentation of the Jewish population in Israel is important to the historical claims made by both sides in the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. - from Amzon
ISBN(s)
0874803918, 9780874803914
