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Ishtori Haparchi (1280–1355), also
Estori Haparchi and
Ashtori ha-Parhi (Hebrew: אשתורי הפרחי) is the pen name of the 14th-century
Jewish physician, geographer...
- In his 14th-century work
Kaftor va-Ferach (Hebrew: כפתור ופרח),
Ishtori Haparchi notes that
capers were
grown in the
Jordan Valley region. List of endemic...
- Issachar.
Ishtori Haparchi,
differing in view,
thought that the old
namesake is
represented in the
nearby village of
Kefrah (see:
Ishtori Haparchi,
Kaftor wa-Ferach...
- In his 14th-century work
Kaftor va-Ferach (Hebrew: כפתור ופרח),
Ishtori Haparchi wrote that the
inhabitants of the Land of
Israel in his time
consumed Tahini...
- Arish. Wadi al-Arish is
considered by some,
including geographer Ishtori Haparchi, to be the
Brook of
Egypt mentioned in the
Hebrew Bible that
formed the...
- were
captured by Shishak, king of Egypt. A
tradition reported by
Ishtori Haparchi (1280–1355) and
other early Jewish writers is that
Ramla was the biblical...
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compelled to
remain by the authorities, as
physician to the sultan.
Ishtori Haparchi, who was a
geographer of Palestine, said that
Maimonides signed letters...
- Abi ****rus is the
river that runs near
Ramla in Filastin" 1322:
Ishtori Haparchi,
Sefer Kaftor Vaferach,
mentions twice that
Ramla is also
known as Filastin...
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World Wars and the
British Mandate period. A
tradition reported by
Ishtori Haparchi (1280–1355) and
other early Jewish writers is that
Ramla was the biblical...
- Jews
hoping to
settle in Palestine.
Exiled from
France in 1306,
Ishtori Haparchi (d. 1355)
arrived in
Palestine and
settled Bet She'an in 1313. Over the...
