A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide
By Alan Verskin *10
Published March 6, 2019
A Vision of Yemen (Stanford University Press) is the reflective first-hand account of Hayyim Habshush, a Yemeni Jew who accompanied the European orientalist Joseph Halévy on his archaeological tour of Yemen in 1869. This is the first English translation of Habshush’s work.
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