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Petachia of Regensburg: A Medieval Ashkenazi Jew Travels to the East
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Petachia of Regensburg: A Medieval Ashkenazi Jew Travels to the East
🗺️ Petachia, from a Tosafist family, traveled overland through Eastern Europe to reach Babylonia (Iraq) and the Land of Israel, leaving behind notes, heavily worked by later hands, about his travels.

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