The author:
Dr. Hervé David Nahum is a bibliophile and collector of old books, passionate about history in general and that of the Mediterranean basin in particular.
For this work, which is neither polemical nor partisan, he compiled, selected and organized texts extracted from travelers' accounts, which offer a diverse and original panorama of the Jewish community in Palestine in the 19th century.
Key features:
-The originality of the approach
-The region: Palestine under the domination of the Ottoman Empire
-The period: the 19th century, just before the emergence of Jewish and Arab nationalist movements
-The subject: the Jewish presence in Palestine at that time, as perceived by travelers from all backgrounds and all faiths
-Target audience: readers interested in the history of this region or the Jewish people, in the relations between the different communities, in the place of the three monotheistic religions, in travel narratives, or simply curious to discover quality literary texts that have fallen into oblivion.
-Period illustrations.
