The Jews of Asia : especially in the 16. and 17. centuries / by Sindey Mendelssohn. With a portr. of the author. 1920
Content
- Deckblatt
- Illustration
- Titelblatt
- Memoir of Author
- Author's Introduction
- Contents
- Chapter I. Turkey. Introductory Remarks - The Power of the Moslem Empire - The Jews under the Crescent - Joseph Caro - Joseph of Naxos, an early Zionist - Solomon Ashkenazi, Envoy to Venice - Sabbathai Zevi.
- Chapter II. Turkey (continued). Conditions in Turkish Jewry - Testimony of Early Travellers - Nicholas Nicholay, the Geographer - Teixiera in Turkey - Aleppo - The Travels of Four Englishmen - Michael Febre - Master Henry Blount, Gentleman
- Chapter III. Palestine. The Promised Land - Ten Centuries of Jewish Rule - The Roman Occupations - Jerusalem under the Arabs - The Turkish Conquest - Safed - Four Englishmen and a Preacher - Vital and Lurya - Seventeenth-Century Troubles.
- Chapter IV. Palestine (continued). The Jews in Jerusalem - "Apparent Truthes" - Sandys Travailes - The Syrian Tripoli - The Valley of Jehosaphat - David Reubeni - Darker Days in Palestine - Borrowers Instead of Lenders.
- Chapter V. Persia. The Iran Faith - Cyrus - Ahasuerus and Esther - Shah Ishmael - Abbas the Great - A Seventy Years' Deal with Abbas - Abbas the Second - The Consequences of False Messianism.
- Chapter VI. Persia (continued). The Origin of the Persian Jews - Legends of Ispahan - Benjamin of Tudela - Teixiero's Visit to Persia - Thevenot's Account - Benjamin II.'s Persian Experiences - Sir Thomas Herbert
- Chapter VII. India. The Cranganore and Cochin Jews - Rabban's Charter - "The Jewish Territorial Organization" - The Malabar Settlements - The Genesis of the Blck Jews of Cochin - The "Discovery" of the Beni Israel
- Chapter VIII. India (continued). The Charter of the Malabar Jews - The Customs of the Beni Israel - Linschoten and the Jews of India - The Jews of Cochin - Vincent Le Blanc - Stavorinus - The Beni Israel.
- Chapter IX. China. Their First Appearance - Their Origin - Their Records - Their Present State - The Sect which Extracts the Sinews - Social and Commercial Activities - The Temple at Kai-Fung-Foo - The End of the Settlement.
- Chapter X. The Yemen. First Settlement of Jews - Ezra and the Jews of the Yemen - A jewish Dynasty - Wars between Jews and the Christians - Subsequent Obscurity.
- Chapter XI. The Yemen (continued). Jewish Kings - Social and Economic Conditions in the Yemen - Present Conditions - Recent Emigration.
- Chapter XII. Kurdistan. Tiglath Pileser-Nahum, the Prophet - Nineveh - The Sepulchre of Ezra - Benjamin of Tudela's Visit to Kurdistan - David Al Roy - Benjamin Il's Visits to Kurdistan - Modern Statistics.
- Chapter XIII. Kurdistan (continued). Mosul - The Jews of Amadia - The Shrine of Nahum - The Pentecost Celebrations - A Night in Nahum's Sepulchre - Kurdistan Under the Turks -The Jews in the Mountains - Benjamin Il's Third Journey to Kurdistan
- Chapter XIV. Mesopotamia. Hammurabi - The End of the Kingdom of Israel - Defeat of Sennacherib - The End of the Kingdom of Judah - The Restoration by Cyrus - Ezra.
- Chapter XV. Mesopotamia (continued). The Academy of Sora - The Exilarchs - Persecution - The Completion of the Babylonian Talmud - The Princess of the Gaonate - David Alroy - The Visits of Petachiah of Ratisbon and Benjamin of Tudela
- List of Works Consulted
- Index