Re: [ha-Safran] A book about famous Jews

2017-11-23 Thread Sherry Wasserman
This book sounds like what you are looking for, but it is considerably older than you said, published originally in 1979. I used to give it as a bar/bat mitzvah present often years ago. It was re-issued in a severely cut down version (only 36 people not 100) more recently. Sadly, both are long

Re: [ha-Safran] A book about famous Jews

2017-11-23 Thread Karen Hering
Do you have suggestions of books along this line in English but from countries other than America. Would like to see a wider scope. Thanks Karen Hering Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 23, 2017, at 1:41 PM, Dina Tanners wrote: > > Thanks. Those sound great but the other was

[ha-Safran] Branching Out From Sepharad now on Amazon by Sarina Roffe

2017-11-23 Thread Sarina Roffe
With the Foreword written by Dr. Walter Zenner A’H, *Branching Out From Sepharad* outlines the history of Jews in Spain, the 1492 Expulsion, the history of Jews in Syria, and follows them to the Americas. The book is footnoted and can be used as a source for research. Roffé traces the Kassin

Re: [ha-Safran] A book about famous Jews

2017-11-23 Thread Dina Tanners
Thanks. Those sound great but the other was about Jews from israel too. Dina Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 22, 2017, at 10:46 PM, Stephanie Krasner wrote: > > Okay. Just thought of a more recent one that would also be great- In the > Promised Land : Lives of Jewish