When Scotland Was Jewish - 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 When Scotland Was Jewish write by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman. This book was released on 2015-05-07. When Scotland Was Jewish available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.
Caledonian Jews
Caledonian Jews - 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 Caledonian Jews write by Nathan Abrams. This book was released on 2009-10-21. Caledonian Jews available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first full history of the Jews in Scotland who lived outside Edinburgh and Glasgow. The work focuses on seven communities from the borders to the highlands: Aberdeen, Ayr, Dundee, Dunfermline, Falkirk, Greenock, and Inverness. Each of these communities was of sufficient size and affluence to form a congregation with a functional synagogue and, while their histories have been previously neglected in favor of Jewish populations in larger cities, their stories are important in understanding Scottish Jewry and British history as a whole. Drawn from numerous primary sources, the history of Jews in Scotland is traced from the earliest rumors to the present.
The Early Jews and Muslims of England and Wales
The Early Jews and Muslims of England and Wales - 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 Early Jews and Muslims of England and Wales write by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman. This book was released on 2014-04-22. The Early Jews and Muslims of England and Wales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book proposes that Jews were present in England in substantial numbers from the Roman Conquest forward. Indeed, there has never been a time during which a large Jewish-descended, and later Muslim-descended, population has been absent from England. Contrary to popular history, the Jewish population was not expelled from England in 1290, but rather adopted the public face of Christianity, while continuing to practice Judaism in secret. Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Muslims held the highest offices in the land, including service as archbishops, dukes, earls, kings and queens. Among those proposed to be of Jewish ancestry are the Tudor kings and queens, Queen Elizabeth I, William the Conqueror, and Thomas Cromwell. Documentaton in support of this revisionist history includes DNA studies, genealogies, church records, place names and the Domesday Book.
Book of Jewish and Crypto-Jewish Surnames
Book of Jewish and Crypto-Jewish Surnames - 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 Book of Jewish and Crypto-Jewish Surnames write by Judith K. Jarvis. This book was released on 2018-05-10. Book of Jewish and Crypto-Jewish Surnames available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From unlikely places like Scotland and the Appalachian Mountains to the Bible and archives of the Spanish Inquisition, this valuable resource published in 2018 is the first to cover the naming practices of Conversos, Marranos and secret Jews along with more familiar Central and Eastern European Jewries. It includes Joseph Jacobs’ classic work on Jewish Names, a chapter on Scottish clans and septs, thousands of Sephardic and Ashkenazic surnames from early colonial records and Rabbi Malcolm Stern’s 445 Early American Jewish Families. Appendix A contains 400 surnames from the Greater London cemetery Adath Yisroel. Appendix B provides a combined name index to the indispensable When Scotland Was Jewish, Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America and The Early Jews and Muslims of England and Wales, all by Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates. It contains 276 pages and has an extensive index and bibliography. “Up-to-date and valuable research tool for genealogists and those interested in Jewish origins.” —Eran Elhaik, Assistant Professor, The University of Sheffield
Mackerel at Midnight
Mackerel at Midnight - 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 Mackerel at Midnight write by Ethel G. Hofman. This book was released on 2006. Mackerel at Midnight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ethel Hofman grew up in the only Jewish family on Shetland. This is the story of her family and childhood, and of the meeting of two diverse cultures in a unique landscape. Fleeing Russia a century ago, Ethel's father, Harry Greenwald, found a safe haven in Lerwick, Shetland. Liking the place, he brought over Jean after an arranged marriage and they set up a shop, Greenvald's, soon popular with the locals as a gathering place. Despite the hardships of living on a remote island, good food and good company were always available, and the recipes for the Jewish and island dishes prepared by Jean are woven throughout the touching, affectionate narrative. As a unique blend of memoir and cookbook, Mackerel at Midnight shows how food can strengthen family and cultural bonds, and celebrates the tolerance and warmth of one Jewish family and the community that embraced them.
