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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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Sources & resources

  • « 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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