{"product_id":"9780817385200","title":"To Come to the Land: Immigration and Settlement in 16th-Century Eretz-Israel","description":"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTo Come to the Land makes available in English a vast body of research,\u003cbr\u003e previously available only in Hebrew, on the early history of the land now\u003cbr\u003e known as Israel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Abraham David here focuses on the Spanish and Portuguese Jews who fled\u003cbr\u003e the Iberian Peninsula during the 16th century, tracing the beginnings of\u003cbr\u003e Sephardic influence in the land of Israel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e After the Ottoman Turks conquered Syria, Palestine, and Egypt in 1516,\u003cbr\u003e the Ottoman regime, unlike their Mamluk predecessors, encouraged economic\u003cbr\u003e development and settlement throughout the region. This openness to immigration\u003cbr\u003e offered a solution to the crisis Iberian Jews were undergoing as a result\u003cbr\u003e of their expulsion from Spain and the forced conversions in Portugal. Within\u003cbr\u003e a few years of the Ottoman conquest, Jews of Spanish extraction, many of\u003cbr\u003e them clustered in urban areas, dominated the Jewish communities of Eretz-Israel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this carefully researched study, David examines the lasting impression\u003cbr\u003e made by these enterprising Jewish settlers on the commercial, social, and\u003cbr\u003e intellectual life of the area under early Ottoman rule. Of particular interest\u003cbr\u003e is his examination of the cities of Jerusalem and Safed and David's succinct\u003cbr\u003e biographies of leading Jewish personalities throughout the region.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This first English translation of a ground-breaking Hebrew work provides\u003cbr\u003e a comprehensive overview of a significant chapter in the history of Israel\u003cbr\u003e and explores some of the factors that brought to it the best minds of the\u003cbr\u003e age. Essential for scholars of late Medieval Jewish history, \u003ci\u003eTo Come to\u003cbr\u003e the Land\u003c\/i\u003e will also be an important resource for scholars of intellectual\u003cbr\u003e history, as it provides background crucial to an understanding of the intellectual\u003cbr\u003e flourishing of the period.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47119222866160,"sku":"9780817385200","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780817385200_p0.jpg?v=1763745934","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780817385200","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}