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(Jt) Slouschz, Nahum : BE-IYE HA-YAM : (MI-SEFER HA-MASA`OT)

New York : Kadimah., 1919.

12mo. 112 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT (S) : Jewish historians - biography; Slouschz, Nahum, 1872-1966; Western Mediterranean - description and travel; Mediterranean Sea - description and travel. OCLC lists 25 copies worldwide. Slouzschz, a scholar, writer, archeologist, historian and translator, was born near Vilna. He spent his young adulthood in Odessa, where he was part of the Hovevei Zion movement and the Hebrew renascence. He later moved to Geneva, where he was a founder of the Swiss Zionist Federation. For a time he joined the Jewish Territorial Organization in order to investigate the possibilities of a Jewish settlement in Tripoli-Cyrenaica. In 1904 he became the chair of Hebrew language and literature at the Sorbonne. During World War I he was involved in activities to influence the French government to agree with the Balfour Declaration, and in 1919 he moved permanently to Erez Israel, where he reviewed the Palestine Exploration Society and edited its publications. He discovered the ancient second-century synagogue of Hammath in Tiberias and excavated Absalom's Tomb in Jerusalem (EJ) Covers a little worn, back is spotty, good condition. (HebLit-6-14)

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