Map of the Land of Israel
Late 15th or 16th Century
Image
Engage with this Source
Related Guide
Defining Trends of the Early Modern Period
1500–1750
Paradoxically, both centrifugal forces (expulsions, migrations creating global dispersion) and centripetal trends (Hebrew printing, kabbalah) unified Jews in the early modern period.
Related Guide
Birth of an Idea: Defining the Early Modern Period
1500–1750
The emergence of the early modern period (1500–1750) in Jewish history is relatively recent and complex.
Restricted
Related Guide
Early Modern Historical Narratives
1500–1750
The early modern period saw a flourishing of Jewish historical writing in genres ranging from apologetic treatises to chronicles of specific events.
You may also like
Tsemaḥ David (The Sprout of David): Introduction to the Second Part
Nevertheless, I saw from the first that many people would open their mouths wide against me [see Psalms 22:14] and speak arrogantly against me and think it a sin on my part for my having written based…
Map of Jerusalem
In this seventeenth-century map, Jerusalem is depicted as a fairly dense city within a wall, with only a few structures outside. Men in Arab dress stand in small groups conversing with one another in…
Divre Yosef (The Words of Joseph)
Sultan Mehmed began his reign in the year 856, according to their count [1452 CE]. The king ordered the building of sailing ships on the top of the…
Kore’ ha-dorot (Reader for the Generations)
And after the rabbi [Joseph Karo] went to Safed he studied in the study house of the rabbi, our master, Jacob Berab, and became a disciple of our master R. Berab, as is written in several places. The…
Seder ha-dorot (Order of the Generations)
Behold I request of all standing at the gate to knock,And he who wishes to enter deep within this composition of mine,Let him understand and be wise and contemplate the introduction I have composed.Fo…