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Doing the Legwork: Following the Paths of Jewish Peddlers

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Current fellow Nathanael Riemer is inspired to retrace the journey of an itinerant sixteenth-century Jewish money changer on foot, using bodily experience to gain access into ancient materials.
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On Holiday with Benjamin of Tudela

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It is summer, and as the fortunate among us head to familiar summer haunts—redolent with the smell of hedgerows and the feeling of warm earth under bare feet, once again appreciating sundown and turning the pillow to the cool side—it seems apt to reflect on the many ways in which travel is something quite qualitatively different from movement through space.

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New Issue of the Jewish Quarterly Review: Spring 2019

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JQR 109.2 is now available, online and in print.
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Last Year in Jerusalem

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This week marked two years since the closing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s special exhibition on the city of Jerusalem in medieval art...
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Travel Documents before Modern Passports

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Passports and visas are part of the familiar apparatus of modern day travel, essential for maintaining the boundaries of the sovereign nation state. How did individuals cross borders in the past?
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