THE PRIMACY OF THE DIASPORA

4. Salo W. Baron , A Social and Religious History of the Jews(New York : 1952), Vol. 1, PP­172ff; Salo W. Baron ,“Reflections on Ancient and Medieval Jewish Historical Demography,” Ancient and Medieval Jewish History(New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 1972), pp. 10fT. 5. Ket 111a; J. Sotah 8.4. 6. M. Kid 1.9; Ter 1.5; Sheb. 6.6; Hul 410; etc.

. M. Orlah 3.9; Ter 2.13; Shev 6.1; Dem 1.3 etc.

Kid 77a; Men 68b; B.B.56a; B.M. 89a; Hag 3b; Meg 10a, f; Yeb 82b; J. Shev 6.1, etc.

. Tanhuma , Re’eh 8; Tanhuma , Bambidbar 17; J. Shev 6.1; Yad Hil. Ter 1.5; Bet Hebehirah 6.16; etc.

10. Yehudah Halevi , Maimonides , Gersonides , Azulai, Nahmanides. 11. Ket 111a; Song of Songs Rabba 2.7; Mekhilta Ex 13.17; etc. 12. Moshe Gil , 4 History of Palestine(634-1099)(Cambridge: 1992), p. 67, note 70.

13. M. Avi-Yonah, The Jews of Palestine(New York : 1976), pp. 150ff; Gedaliah Alon , The Jews in Their Land in the Talmudic Age(Jerusalem : 1980), Vol. 2.

14. Gil , op. cit., pp. 624ff. 15. Gil , op. cit., 633. 16. Gil , op. cit., 612fF.

17. Hai Gaon in Orzar Hageonim Ketuvot 836; Isaac Schepansky, Eretz Yisrael Besafrut Hateshuvot (Jerusalem 1966) Vol. 1, pp. 119ff. These citations take us into the fourteenth century.

18. Teshuvot Rambam(ed. Blau)(Jerusalem : 1958),(2), 639fT.

19. S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society(Berkeley : University of California Press , 1971), Vol. 2, p 1211.

20. Ephraim Karnafogel,“Aliyah of Three Hundred Rabbis,” Jewish Quarterly Review 76(1985), pp. 193f.

21. Schepansky, op. cit., Vol. 1, pp. 120f. 22. Schepansky, op. cit., Vol. 1, pp. 133f. 23. Efraim Urbach , Ba-alei Tosfot(Jerusalem , 1955), pp. 320f.

24. Comment to Moses Maimonides , Sefer Mirzvot, Aseh 4.

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