Corfu While Benjamin of Tudela (1170) found scarcely a single Jew on Corfu, this state of affairs changed when rulers of Naples from the House of Anjou brought in Jewish craftsmen from the Byzantine Empire. From this foundation there developed…
Author: Dr. James Loeffler
Before The Deluge: Jews Of The Mediterranean Islands (Part II) – Crete
Crete In biblical times this island was known as Kaftor. It had close relations with the Philistines, who already swelled in the Land of Canaan when the Jews migrated in, and this Kaftorland is conceivably the Philistine homeland. This cultural…
Before The Deluge: Jews Of The Mediterranean Islands – Cyprus
The stories in this column are translations by Mr. Nollet fromDie Juden In Der Welt (The Jews in the World) by Mark Wischnitzer, a long out-of-print book published more than seven decades ago in Germany.The book examines Jewish communities, one country at a…
BEFORE THE DELUGE: THE JEWS OF THE PRE-HOLOCAUST WORLD
The stories in this essay are translations from an old German-language book, and I think it useful to state at the outset how that book came into my possession. A number of years ago, when I lived in Boston, I…