The essential starting point of this study has to do mostly with movements of
people in Medieval times throughout the world, but paying special attention to the
particular way Jews moved from one place to another in those times. Its main purpose is to
understand why they dared such dangerous travels, even risking their lives, suffering most
of the times really painful conditions; or, to put it in another way, which were the
motivations that impelled them to set out on a travel of that kind. My tentative contention
is that, reflecting on how they moved about in medieval times, and for which specific
reasons they did so; we may understand better some of the features that made Jews
identifiable throughout history.
