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Moise Vita Cafsuto
ca. 1700–ca. 1760
Little is known about Moise Vita Cafsuto (Cassuto) besides the fact that he was a wealthy merchant from Florence. However, he did leave behind a detailed diary of his travels, written in Italian and addressed to his wife. The first part of Cafsuto’s account, written in 1735, tells the story of a year-and-a-half journey to Palestine between 1733 and 1735. The second part describes a westbound journey that took place between 1741 and 1743.
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Diario di un viaggio in Terra Santa (Diary of a Journey to the Holy Land): On the Jews of London
“There are two synagogues of the German Jews, and one of the Portuguese, twenty-four cubits broad and forty-two long. Each one has its own management; thus the income of one is not mixed with that of…