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(ISRAEL, LAND OF). BEIRAV, YA’AKOV.  Zimrath Ha’aretz [”The Song of the Land”: history of the settlement of Tiberias] Second edition. Text in Hebrew and Ladino (Judeo-Espanol). With haskamah of R. Yitzchak Abulafia. ff. 28. Stain at lower margin. Modern boards. Sm.4to. Vinograd, Livorno 646; Yaari, Ladino 356. Livorno Sa'adoun, Molcho & Co., 1820. In 1740, R. Chaim Abulafia founded a colony in Tiberias. In this work, first published in Mantua in 1745, Abulafia's son-in-law R. Ya’akov Beirav records the trials and tribulations and the ultimate triumph of establishing the new settlement. The purpose of the book was to call attention to the importance of settling Tiberias, one of the Four Holy Cities of the Land of Israel.  Appended are twelve poems composed by the Author in praise of the sanctity of Tiberias. See https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/6813242/jewish/The-Siege-and-Double-Salvation-of-18th-Century-Tib erias.htm