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BY 1989 I HAD SPENT a lot of time in archives in both Safed and Tiberias but found little useful material since natural and man-made disasters had caused much distraction in those towns: the great earthquake in 1837, the cloudburst and flood in Tiberias in 1934, wars and changes of regimes—between 1918 and 1948 the country had gone from Ottoman to British to Israeli or Jordanian rule. Still, by then I had learned that the Ashkenazis were Hasidim and that at some point they left Bessarabia to come to Palestine, so I tried to better understand the relationship between Hasidut—the religious movement which emerged in Eastern Europe around the middle of the eighteenth century—and aliya—“going up” to settle in Eretz Israel.

This chapter is not directly related to my family but it provides background information about the early years of the Hasidim in Safed and Tiberias.