The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman write by Todd M. Endelman. This book was released on 2022-09-06. The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Last Kings of Shanghai
The Last Kings of Shanghai - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Kings of Shanghai write by Jonathan Kaufman. This book was released on 2021-06-01. The Last Kings of Shanghai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly readable book about China's past, it also reveals the contingencies and ironic twists of fate in China's modern history."--LA Review of Books An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist The Sassoons and the Kadoories stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power. Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable history of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival.
The History and Social Influence of the Potato
The History and Social Influence of the Potato - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History and Social Influence of the Potato write by Redcliffe N. Salaman. This book was released on 1985-11-21. The History and Social Influence of the Potato available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History
The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History write by W. Rubinstein. This book was released on 2011-01-27. The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History
Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History write by James Picciotto. This book was released on 1875. Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
