The travels of Moses Cassuto, 1733-1735 and 1741-1743

A unique document is the diary of Moses Vita Cassuto, written in the first half of the eighteenth century and describing his two journeys, one to Palestine and one to England and Holland. I managed to find a summary of this diary in Richard Barnetts essay about the Cassuto travels in the book “Remember the Days, essays in honour of Cecil Roth”, edited by John M. Shaftesley and published in 1966 by The Jewish Historical Society of England. I make gratefully use of the essay of Richard Barnett by putting on this website fragments of his article and the summary of the diary.

Contents:
Introduction
first journey to Palestine: landing in Egypt
arrival in Hebron
Jerusalem and Safed
From Palestine to Constantinople
From Constantinople to Vienna
home: from Vienna to Florence