...   (ePub);   £150 $240Distributed in North and South America by Oxford University Press © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only --> English language Fiction Jews In their Introduction [Modern Jewish Fiction (pp. 1-15...

... are mentioned. The authors have included family trees going back five generations for six of these families. The entry on Families: Size and Relationships includes a table listing 22 Jewish families with 93 sons and 24 daughters, demonstrating, at least for affluent English Jews, large family sizes...

... of protection. The Ba’al Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism, was known for many forms of magic, including understanding the speech of birds and animals. Riddling games, according to the author, Dina Stein, are used to create “the fantasized world where the historically anguished Jews overshadow their Hellenistic...

... --> Religion Jews Middle East Taking as their province the whole concept of Zionism ‐ its disparate strands, its founders, its organisation, the key persons, and the major events in its eventful history, notably of course, the establishment of the state of Israel ‐ Medoff and Waxman reach back...