Bar-Ilan University Press

Captivity and Ransom in Jewish Society

Eliezer Bashan

Prize for Religious Zionist Thought, In Memory of Haim Moshe Shapira, 1982 A study of an important and unique institution in Mediterranean Jewish community life- the practice if ransoming co-religionists, who were enslaved or had been captured by Christian or Moslem pirates, or as the result of wars.

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Danacode: 110-10124 Language: Hebrew Dimensions: 17X25 cm Publication Date: 01/1978 Publisher: Bar-Ilan University Press

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