The book presents and discusses a large corpus of Jewish maps of the Holy Land that were drawn
by Jewish scholars from the 11th to the 20th century and thus fills a significant lacuna both
in the history of cartography and in Jewish studies. The maps depict the biblical borders of
the Holy Land the allotments of the tribes and the forty years of wanderings in the desert.
Most of these maps are in Hebrew although there are several in Yiddish Ladino and in European
languages. The book focuses on four aspects: it presents an up-to-date corpus of known maps of
various types and genres it suggests a classification of these maps according to their source
shape and content it presents and analyses the main topics that were depicted in the maps and
it puts the maps in their historical and cultural contexts both within the Jewish world and
the sphere of European cartography of their time. The book is an innovative contribution to the
fields of history of cartography and Jewish studies. It is written for both professional
readers and the general public. The Hebrew edition (2014) won the Izhak Ben-Zvi Prize.
