Mizrahi
Maghrebi
Sephardi
Ashkenazi (Rhineland & Eastern Europe)
Other regions
Topics (square; colour = tradition)
Individuals
How to use this map
Each pin links to a full city note on this site. Markers are grouped by tradition: Mizrahi (Middle East), Maghrebi (North Africa), Sephardi (Iberia), and Ashkenazi (the Rhineland and Central & Eastern Europe). Square pins mark topics rather than cities. Gold and green pins include Aleppo, Cairo, Tunis, and Toledo; navy pins mark Ashkenazi learning from Mainz and Worms to Warsaw and Konigsberg.
Dashed lines suggest historical manuscript and scholar traffic, the same routes Benjamin of Tudela mapped in prose and the Cairo Genizah documented in discarded paperwork. For regional context, begin with the Diaspora Hub.