Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Fri fragt over 499,-
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Bøger
Bestsellers
Kommer snart
Nyheder
Store besparelser
Fri fragt over 499,-
Hjem
Kategorier
Bestsellers
Kommer snart
Nyheder
FAQ
Konto
Kontakt
Kurv
  1. Bog
  2. Historie: specielle begivenheder
  3. Social- & Kulturhistorie
The Grandees
- America’s Sephardic Elite
Af: Stephen Birmingham
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Grandees af Stephen Birmingham, 9781493024681
Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
394
ISBN-13:
9781493024681
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
149302468X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 okt 2016
Størrelse i cm:
15,4 x 22,7 x 2,5
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
15 okt 2016
Forfatter(e):
Genre:

The Grandees

- America’s Sephardic Elite
Af: Stephen Birmingham
Engelsk
Paperback 2016
Format:
Paperback
Bog beskrivelse
Tracing their origins to medieval Portugal and Spain, the Sephardic Jews consider themselves ‘the nobility of Jewry,’ in contrast to their pushier and more aggressive German counterparts. They were also the first Jews to inhabit the new world—first exiled from Spain and Portugal, and then forced out of Brazil, a ship bearing 23 Sephardic Jews was blown off its course to Holland, beset by pirates, and then captured by a French captain before being ransomed for the ‘payment of their freight’ in the City of New Amsterdam. And so the American Sephardic Jewish story begins.Here Stephen Birmingham tells the rich and varied history of this insular group of bewilderingly interrelated families, spiced with gossip and the gentle rattling of family skeletons. We find tales of fortunes made in the fur trade long before the Astors, revolutionary heroes and heroines, and poetic spinster Rebecca Gratz, thought to be Scott’s model for Rebecca in Ivanhoe. Through it all emerges a picture of a proud haughty people, who have chosen to remain aloof from the later-arriving Jews from Europe, and have staunchly refused to be swept up in the movement of Reform Judaism, preferring to adhere to their Orthodox rituals. Stephen Birmingham weaves a vibrant tapestry of the Sephardic experience in America, working in threads of their history in medieval Europe as he depicts the lives of these extraordinary Americans.
... Vis mere
Hos Booktok
164 kr
Læg i kurv nu
Sikker betaling
23 - 25 hverdage
Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
394
ISBN-13:
9781493024681
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
149302468X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
15 okt 2016
Størrelse i cm:
15,4 x 22,7 x 2,5
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
15 okt 2016
Forfatter(e):
Finder produkter...
Kategori sammenhænge