In the summer of 1966
and the role of Gracia Nasi Mendes
an African American who came to the USSR to build smelters and stayed to work as an engineer
Bilingual Yiddish and English
In the footsteps of Andre Aciman’s Out of Egypt and Lucette Lagnado’s The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit comes Aaron Zevy’s Schlepping Across the Nile: a collection of vignettes
Gabriel's Palace by Howard Schwartz New Year In the summer of 1966A vast bounty of tales recounting mystical experiences among the rabbis can be found in the Talmud, the Zohar, Jewish folktales, and Hasidic lore. Now, in Gabriel's Palace, scholar Howard Schwartz has collected the greatest of these stories, sacred and secular, in a marvelously readable anthology. Gabriel's Palace offers a treasury of 150 pithy and powerful tales, involving experiences of union with the divine, out of body travel, encounters with