Chess in Jewish history and Hebrew literature /
This book deals with the origins of chess from before 500 A.D. and its appearance in Jewish sources and literature until the middle of the 19th century. Chess is mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud, and Jews played a part in the spread of the game through medieval writings on chess, primarily in Spai...
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Jerusalem :
The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University,
1995
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