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Un finto rabbino, una subdola guida, un diario che riappare: viaggio in Yemen di Joseph Hal�vy

AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-00199

Authors:	Bianchi, Elisa
Published in:	Milano
Published by:	Edizioni Angelo Guerini e Associati SpA , 2003

Contents:
This monograph by Elisa Bianchi deals with the French philologist, epigrapher and geographer Joseph Hal�vy (1827-1917) who visited Yemen in 1869-1870. During this journey, Hal�vy drew the first maps of the region, collected 686 Ancient South Arabian inscriptions (p. 75) and studied the local Jewish population.
Between 1873 and 1877, Hal�vy's official account was published in the 'Bulletin de la Soci�t� de G�ographie'. However, Hal�vy's report was almost forgotten by the scientific community, until, more than twenty years later, a Yemeni coppersmith named Ḥayyim Ḥabšūš (1839-1899) - a name that was never mentioned in Hal�vy's account - wrote a memoir of the same journey ('Masot Habshush' - The Journeys of Habshush'), presenting himself as Hal�vy's guide and attributing Hal�vy's discoveries to himself...
It is known from Habshush himself that he wrote his experiences with Hal�vy in the form of a travelogue at the instigation of Eduard Glaser (1855-1908). The Bohemian epigrapher and explorer, in turn, relied on Ḥabšūš' account when he accused Hal�vy of errors and inaccuracies and criticised above all his geographical and cartographic indications... (pp. 117 ff.)
Elisa Bianchi considers the publication of Ḥabšūš's memoir as a move by Glaser aiming at casting an uncomfortable coreligionist, who 'represented everything Glaser disliked', in a bad light. (p. 259)

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