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In Hebrew. 104, 6 full page plates, 1 foldout map, anotehr map, second title page, in English. 180 x 128 mm. Lacks spine strip. With silk ribbon page marker. Laid in: errata slip, slip listing publications by the publisher. Moses ben Mordecai Bassola (Moses Bassola, Basilea, Basila (1480 Pesaro, Italy - 1560 ) was a Rabbi and a cabalist. His travels took place in 1521?1523. Since he called himself Tzarfati (the Frenchman), his family may have originated from France. He was a member of a famous rabbinical family in Eretz Israel and in Italy, in the 15th to 18th century. His last name, Bassola, indicates that the family probably originated from Basel (the Latin form of the name is: Basil) in Switzerland. He served in his youth in his hometown of Pesaro as a Rabbi. In 1521 he sailed to the Land of Israel via Cyprus and Crete and toured it for a year and a half. He documents his impressions from this visit in this book, Sefer Masaot, describing various sites in what was then called Ottoman Palestine. A partial list: Bar'am, Ein Zeitim, Safed, Meron, Kefar Hananiah, Akbara, Peki'in, Amuka, Gush Halav, Dalton, Huqoq, Jethro's Tomb in the Horns of Hittin, Nablus, Jerusalem, Hebron. In every place he visited, he described the inhabitants, the number of Jews living in each locality and their important occupations, including the burial sites of the righteous, synagogues, etc. For a while he resided in the settlement of Ein Zeitim, which had then a Jewish community of c. 40 families. His book is a primary source of information for Jewish life in the Eretz Israel in that era. After returning to Italy he lived in Ancona and headed the Yeshiva there. In his later years he settled in Israel, residing in Safed, where he was friendly with the rabbis of the city, especially with R. Moses ben Jacob Cordovero. Moses' son, Rabbi Azriel ben Moses Bassola, was a known scholar, whom among his students was Rabbi Leon of Modena. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 015507
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