Eldad ha-Dani
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A mysterious Jewish traveler who claimed to come from an independent Jewish kingdom in Africa, a descendant of the tribe of Dan. His accounts of the Ten Lost Tribes fascinated medieval Jewish communities and fueled messianic hope.
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- « Eldad Ha-Dani », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007) ↗
- Lazar, Ha-Shilo'a? (1903)
- A. Epstein, Eldad ha-Dani, Sippurav ve-Hilkhotav (1950)
- M. Schloessinger, Ritual of Eldad Hadani (1908)
- M. Higger, Jewish Utopia (1932)
- Neubauer, in: jqr, 1 (1888/89), 95–114 (1888)
- Graetz-Rabbinowitz, 3 (1929²), 267–73 (1929)
- Hirschberg, Afrikah, 1 (1965), index (1965)
- Ashtor, Korot (1966)
- Kupfer and Strelcyn, Rocznik Orientalistyczny (1954)
- E.N. Adler, Jewish Travelers (1930)
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