Cairenes and Alexandrian Jews Benders (2nd half of XVth century)

Abstract

In this short contribution, a couple of Italian-Jewish travelers’ passages which, in the XV century, set forth to the East Mediterranean in their journey to the Holy Land. On the way, they berthed in different places, many of them of Arabian-Muslim culture. The contrast between the polished Christian milieu of the Renaissance Italy they came from with that of Jewish-Arabian in Egypt and the Holy Land as well brought about funny remarks as the ones displayed hereafter.