TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adler,Elkan Nathan
TI  - Jewish travellers in the Middle Ages: 19 firsthand accounts 
SN  - 048625397X (pbk.)
AV  - G277 .O88213 1987
U1  - 910/.89924 19
PY  - 1987///
CY  - New York
PB  - Dover
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Jewish travelers
KW  - Jews
KW  - PALESTINE
KW  - Description and travel
N1  - Translation of selections from: Otsar masaʻot; Includes index
N2  - his fascinating book vividly portrays the wandering Jew as a very real character in the great drama of history. In nineteen engaging narratives, some twelve centuries old, travelling Jewish scholars, merchants, pilgrims, ambassadors, and others are revealed to be men of many moods and missions. In these pages you will meet: Isaac, an interpreter in the service of the Emperor Charlemagne, who in the year 802 escorted an elephant named Abulabaz, a gift to the Emperor from the caliph Harun ar-Rashid, over the Alps to the Emperor's court
ER  -