biography
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| (?–1173)
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| biography:
| Rabbi, born in Navarre, N Spain. From 1159 to 1173 he made a journey from Saragossa through Italy and Greece to Palestine, Persia, Turkey, Iraq, India, and the borders of China, to discover distant Jewish communities, returning by way of Egypt and Sicily. He was the first European traveller to describe the Far East, and died in the year of his return. His account, The Itinerary of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela, was published in 1625. |
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