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HESS, SIMCHA BEN YEHOSHUA. (“The Magid of Zalozitch.”)  Ahavath Zion [travelogue of the Holy Land]. FIRST EDITION. Few diagrams. ff. 61. Modern boards. 8vo. Vinograd Grodno 9; Mehlman 1316. (Grodno 1790). The author migrated to Safed in 1764 but returned to Poland within a year due to the protestations of his wife. Described in detail here are his travels through Jaffa, Safed, Acre and the surrounding areas of the northern parts of Eretz Israel.  Accounts of other parts of the country were added from other travelogues, by the author’s son-in-law, Solomon Dubno, who apparently edited this book. See A.M Luncz, Jerusalem Vol. IV, pp. 137-52; Ya’ari, Masa’oth Eretz Yisrael pp. 773-75; G. Scholem, Tarbiz, Vol. XXV (1957) p. 429; I. Tishby, Zion, Vol. XXXII (1967) pp. 4-8.