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Schwarz was born in the Jewish ghetto in Raft, the Judenberg. He was the middle of the three sons of Mendel Schwarz, a main sponsor of the elementary school in Raft. The Schwarz family descended from one of the founders of the Jewish community Floss, namely from Eisik Feifas from Neustadt an
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Schwarz traveled to
Palestine for 15 years at his own expense and explored its geography. A thorough knowledge of the local languages helped him in this arduous and often dangerous undertaking. He published the results of these trips in his book
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Abraham Wechsler, who was district rabbi in the Schwabach District Rabbinate founded in 1813 from 1820 to 1850. In 1823 he worked as an accountant for the landowner and rabbi Mendel Rosenbaum in Unterzell near
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The book contains geographical studies that show the names of localities, mountains, countries, rivers, etc., found in the Bible, Talmud and
Midrash, not only in Palestine, but also in its surroundings, for example, in
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Jerusalem. At the end of the book there is a detailed register of all occurring place names and other terms in German and Hebrew, a picture of Jerusalem and a map of Palestine.
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der Waldnaab. Joseph's brothers were Samuel Schwarz and Hajum Schwarz. Hajum Schwarz was the father of Israel Schwarz, who later edited the main work of his uncle Joseph Schwarz.
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From the US, Schwarz travelled via London to Germany, where he supervised the translation into German and the publication of his book. In 1852, his book, under the title
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The Book of the Crops of the Land, Yosef Schwartz, 1900 Jerusalem, Third edition (first edition came out in the year 1900). Click the image to browse the book from page 7
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on the Mediterranean. There he was stuck for another half a year, because the Orient could not be traveled because of the danger of war. Finally, he reached
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In 1849 Schwarz went to the US and took care of the translation and publication of this book there. In addition, he collected donations as a
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A descriptive geography and brief historical sketch of Palestine, by Rabbi Joseph Schwarz, for sixteen years a resident in the holy land.
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of the Holy Land himself on the spot and to work out a correspondence between names, places and terms mentioned in the Bible, Talmud and
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the exact times of sunrise and sunset for each day of the year. The time of sunrise and sunset determines the time for the Watikin's
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with the existing conditions in the 19th century. At that time, there was only one significant Jewish work on this topic, namely
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customs of the Jews in Jerusalem; various legends and sketches on the history of the Jews in Palestine; and descriptions of the
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Alemannia Judaica: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden im süddeutschen und angrenzenden Raum
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Schwarz was a member of the pious Watikin sect. As a result, his first work in Jerusalem was to observe from the
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in Würzburg, where his older brother Samuel was already studying. The Yeshiva in Würzburg, then led by Rabbi
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Even in his childhood, Schwarz developed an affection for the rabbinical profession. He first studied the
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regulations (Contumaz cordon) prevented him from continuing his journey. From Hungary he travelled on to
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works about Palestine, they were more interested in specifically Christian points of view.
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was published by the publishing house of the Hebrew antiquarian bookstore of I. Kaufmann,
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