"Uncle Di Russian"

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DAVID DI RUSSIAN WAS A TRADER AND PASSENGER TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL IN THE YEAR OF THE 1535. HIS ORIGINS WERE FROM ITALY, FROM THE CITY OF CHECHEN. SIT IN A CROWDED CITY.

HIS JOURNEY IN ISRAEL

HE CAME TO PASS THROUGH HIS YOUTH: HIS SISTER, HANNAH, AND HIS WIFE, ISAAC, HIS SON, ELIJAH, HIS DAUGHTER, AND HIS GRANDSON. THE SHIP SAILED BETWEEN THE REST OF THE CITY OF PAMSTASSA ON THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS. ON THE WAY OF THE SEA, WE WERE CAPTURED BY PIRATES, AND WE WERE THEN HANGED FOR MONEY. BUT HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW SUDDENLY DIED AS A SIGN, AND FOR THAT HIS SISTER RETURNED TO ITALY, WITH THE COMMAND OF HIS LETTER, WHICH WAS RESERVED FOR GENERATIONS AND WHICH WAS TURNED TO ITALIAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES. HE CAME TO THE SHORES OF THE LAND, IN WHICH THE GRAD WAS 1535. IN HIS LETTER, HE MENTIONS THE EVENTS OF HIS TIME, INCLUDING THE DEATH OF POPE CLEMENT VII AND THE SELECTION OF A NEW POPE AND THE SYSTEMS OF THE MAGNIFICENT SULEIMAN, THE OTTOMAN RULER OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN PERSIA AND HIS RELATIONSHIP, EXPLAINED IN HIS OPINION TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN ISRAEL. HE STUDIED AND REVIEWED THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL, ESPECIALLY IN THE NORTHERN PART OF WHICH HE MOVED OR LIVED: TRIPOLI, BEIRUT, AND ITS SURROUNDINGS; AS WELL AS THE GOODS MOVEMENT FOR PORT CITIES IN AFRICA, SUCH AS ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT. THE MAIN INDUSTRIES OF THE ECONOMY IN THE NORTH OF THE COUNTRY ACCORDING TO ITS LETTER ARE AGRICULTURE: GRAIN AND DECEPTION, AND PREPARING CLOTHING IN WORKSHOPS. AS WELL AS A NUMBER OF WATER TRANSPORTS A FOUNTAIN ON THE WAY TO HEBRON AND ARTILLERY AND A BURNING DUST TO THE FORTRESS OF DAVID IN JERUSALEM.

ANOTHER READING.
AVRAHAM ABELIE, THE LAND OF ISRAEL, THE LEVEL OF A GARDEN: THE REMOVAL OF HER BASE, 1971, PP. 187-182.

EXTERNAL LINKS

WRITERS OF JEWISH JOURNEY
LAND OF ISRAEL: JEWISH PASSENGERS
THE OTTOMAN PERIOD IN ISRAEL
ITALIAN JEWS
ANCIENT PEOPLE OF ISRAEL
LAND OF ISRAEL IN THE 16TH CENTURY