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Emissaries from the Holy Land

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Lehmann, Matthias B., 1970- author
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Title Emissaries from the Holy Land : the Sephardic diaspora and the practice of pan-Judaism in the eighteenth century / Matthias B. Lehmann.
Publisher Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
Creation Date [2014]
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-326) and index.
Content Network of beneficence -- Agents of philanthropy : emissaries from the Holy Land and the communities of the diaspora -- Ideological foundations -- Solidarity contested : ethnic division and the quest for unity -- End of an era : the transformation of the philanthropic network in the nineteenth century -- Epilogue : pan-Judaism.
Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Extent viii, 340 pages : maps
23 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990038096670205171

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