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Michael Ehrlich, on the other hand, argued against Scholem and Ish-Shalom that most of the itinerary was likely authentic, as much of the historical and geographical information presented therein appears correct, and there are multiple pieces of information that aren't likely to have been included by
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Scholem examined the library in 1925 and found nine lines of an 18th-century copy of the itinerary. He charged that the itinerary had a number of anachronisms, contradictions, and quotations from Kabbalistic works postdating Chelo. On this basis, Scholem judged the itinerary to be a forgery, written
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at the time the Itinerary claimed to describe one. Prawer wrote that "This itinerary is unfortunately still being quoted by unwary scholars, even though the forgery was proved almost 50 years ago."
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Students of itineraries always remember the very famous and clever forgery of a mid-19th-century scholar of repute, E. Carmoly, who invented the itinerary of one Isaac Chelo.
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Carmoly wrote that the original Hebrew manuscript was in his own library, but when his library was catalogued after his death, no such manuscript was found.
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Ehrlich, Michael (2008). "ספר שבילי דירושלם המיוחס לר' יצחק חילו - מזויף? (The Book of the Ways to Jerusalem attributed to R. Isaac Chelo - a Forgery?)".
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Itinéraires de la Terre Sainte des XIII, XIV, XV, XVI et XVII siècle, traduits de I'hébreu, et accompagnés de tables, de cartes et d 'éclaircissements
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in Thessaly. Chelo is famous for an itinerary of the Holy Land first published in 1847, though many believe it to have been forged by Carmoly.
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or greatly expanded by Carmoly himself. This assessment has been accepted by Michael Ish-Shalom, Dan Shapira,
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and seven roads leading from it, written in 1333. An English translation was published by
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In 1847, the controversial French scholar Eliakim Carmoly published an account titled
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Shapira, Dan D. Y. (2006). "Remarks on Avraham Firkowicz and the Hebrew
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Ancient Place Names in the Holy Land: Preservation and History
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He has been accused of fabrications by several scholars, see
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Prawer also alleged that there was no Jewish community in
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The History of the Jews in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
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of the 14th century. His place of residence is unclear.
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Index

Hebrew
rabbi
Eliakim Carmoly
Gershom Scholem
Lerida
Larissa
Jerusalem
Elkan Adler
Joshua Prawer
Hebron


Itinéraires de la Terre Sainte des XIII, XIV, XV, XVI et XVII siècle, traduits de I'hébreu, et accompagnés de tables, de cartes et d 'éclaircissements
"ספר שבילי דירושלים המיוחס לר' יצחק חילו - מזויף (The Book of the Way to Jerusalem Attributed to R. Isaac Hilo - a Forgery)"
JSTOR
23540112





doi
10.1556/AOrient.59.2006.2.1
Roth, Cecil
Berenbaum, Michael
Skolnik, Fred
Encyclopaedia Judaica
ISBN
978-0-02-866097-4

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