Chapter 1. Departures / Joshua Levinson
Chapter 2. Why do we need a cultural history of travel-and what do the Jews have to do with it? / Joan-Pau Rubiés
Chapter 3. The travels and travails of Abraham / Joshua Levinson
Chapter 4. Wondrous nature : landscape and weather in early pilgrimage narratives / Ora Limor
Chapter 5. Prophecy and peregrination : curious encounters with Biblical lands and Biblical texts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Elliott Horowitz
Chapter 6. Flying camels and other remarkable species : natural marvels in medieval Hebrew travel accounts / Martin Jacobs
Chapter 7. A Jewish critique of European Orientalism in the eighteenth century : Marco Navarra's Lettere orientali / Asher Salah
Chapter 8. No place like home : the uses of travel in early Maskilic translations / Iris Idelson-Shein
Chapter 9. Travel and poverty : the itinerant pauper in medieval Jewish society in Islamic countries / Miriam Frenkel
Chapter 10. The Jewish tradition of the Wandering Jew : the poetics of long duration / Galit Hasan-Rokem
Chapter 11. Between the wild and the civilized : a Yiddish travel writer in Peru / Jack Kugelmass
Chapter 12. The new Zionist road map : from old gravesites to new settlements / Israel Bartal
Chapter 13. Heritage utterances in Jewish destinations : travelers, texts, and museum visitor books / Chaim Noy
Chapter 14. Traveling, seeing, and painting : Amsterdam and the creation of Jewish art in the work of Max Liebermann and Hermann Struck / Nils Roemer
Chapter 15. Jerusalem journeys : wandering women in contemporary Israeli cinema / Anat Zang.