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Book The Last Anglo Jewish Gentleman

Download or read book The Last Anglo Jewish Gentleman written by Todd M. Endelman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redcliffe Salaman (1874–1955) was an English Jew of many facets: a country gentleman, a physician, a biologist who pioneered the breeding of blight-free strains of potatoes, a Jewish nationalist, and a race scientist. A well-known figure in his own time, The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman restores him to his place in the history of British science and the British Jewish community. Redcliffe Salaman was also a leading figure in the Anglo-Jewish community in the 20th century. At the same time, he was also an incisive critic of the changing character of that community. His groundbreaking book, The History and Social Influence of the Potato, first published in 1949 and in print ever since, is a classic in social history. His wife Nina was a feminist, poet, essayist, and translator of medieval Hebrew poetry. She was the first (and to this day, only) woman to deliver a sermon in an Orthodox synagogue in Britain. The Last-Anglo Jewish Gentleman offers a compelling biography of a unique individual. It also provides insights into the life of English Jews during the late-19th and early-20th centuries and brings to light largely unknown controversies and tensions in Jewish life.

Book The History and Social Influence of the Potato

Download or read book The History and Social Influence of the Potato written by Redcliffe N. Salaman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-11-21 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue of a scholarly classic considers the influence of the potato on the social structure and economy throughout history wherever men adopted it as a mainstay of their diets.

Book The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo Jewish History

Download or read book The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo Jewish History written by W. Rubinstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 1941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative and comprehensive guide to key people and events in Anglo-Jewish history stretches from Cromwell's re-admittance of the Jews in 1656 to the present day and contains nearly 3000 entries, the vast majority of which are not featured in any other sources.

Book Sketches of Anglo Jewish History

Download or read book Sketches of Anglo Jewish History written by James Picciotto and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gentleman s Magazine

Download or read book The Gentleman s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications of the Anglo Jewish Historical Exhibition

Download or read book Publications of the Anglo Jewish Historical Exhibition written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gentleman s Magazine

Download or read book Gentleman s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Genius   Anxiety

Download or read book Genius Anxiety written by Norman Lebrecht and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively chronicle of the years 1847­–1947—the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world—is “[a] thrilling and tragic history…especially good on the ironies and chain-reaction intimacies that make a people and a past” (The Wall Street Journal). In a hundred-year period, a handful of men and women changed the world. Many of them are well known—Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished from collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich, no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus, no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin, genetic science would look very different. Without Fritz Haber, there would not be enough food to sustain life on earth. What do these visionaries have in common? They all had Jewish origins. They all had a gift for thinking in wholly original, even earth-shattering ways. In 1847, the Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the world’s population, and yet they saw what others could not. How? Why? Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to pondering and researching the mindset of the Jewish intellectuals, writers, scientists, and thinkers who turned the tides of history and shaped the world today as we know it. In Genius & Anxiety, Lebrecht begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded. This robust, magnificent, beautifully designed volume is “an urgent and moving history” (The Spectator, UK) and a celebration of Jewish genius and contribution.

Book The Gentleman s Magazine and Historical Review

Download or read book The Gentleman s Magazine and Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gentleman s Magazine and Historical Review

Download or read book Gentleman s Magazine and Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Jewish Monthly

Download or read book The National Jewish Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

Download or read book The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon written by Richard Zimler and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2000-03-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Bestseller: “A moody, tightly constructed historical thriller . . . a good mystery story and an effective evocation of a faraway time and place.” —The New York Times After Jews living in sixteenth-century Portugal are dragged to the baptismal font and forced to convert to Christianity, many of these New Christians persevere in their Jewish prayers and rituals in secret and at great risk; the hidden, arcane practices of the kabbalists, a mystical sect of Jews, continue as well. One such secret Jew is Berekiah Zarco, an intelligent young manuscript illuminator. Inflamed by love and revenge, he searches, in the crucible of the raging pogrom, for the killer of his beloved uncle Abraham, a renowned kabbalist, discovered murdered in a hidden synagogue along with a young girl in dishabille. Risking his life in streets seething with mayhem, Berekiah tracks down answers among Christians, New Christians, Jews, and the fellow kabbalists of his uncle, whose secret language and codes by turns light and obscure the way to the truth he seeks. A marvelous story, a challenging mystery, and a telling tale of the evils of intolerance, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon both compels and entertains. “The story moves quickly . . . a literary and historical treat.” —Library Journal ''Remarkable . . . The fever pitch of intensity Zimler maintains is at times overwhelming but never less than appropriate to the Hieronymous Bosch-like landscape he describes. Simultaneously, though, he is able to capture, within the bedlam, quiet moments of tenderness and love.” —Booklist (starred review)

Book The Gentleman and the Jew

Download or read book The Gentleman and the Jew written by Maurice Samuel and published by New York, Knopf. This book was released on 1950 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographical.

Book The Jewish Encyclopedia  Chazars Dreyfus Case

Download or read book The Jewish Encyclopedia Chazars Dreyfus Case written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: