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From: 	 heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com
Sent: 	 Wednesday, July 16, 1997 1:03 AM
To: 	 Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup
Subject: Re: History of Sephardic Jews


To:            heb_roots_chr@geocities.com
Subject:       Re: Sephardic Jews
From:          (Elizabeth Saez)

One of the most interesting books to read on Sephardic Jews is titled, The Jews of Spain, by Jane S Gerber.  This book won the 1993 National
Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Studies. Here is what some people had to say:

"Jane S. Gerber is to be congratulated for her rare achievement, a work of serious popularization that will be welcomed by anyone interested in
Jewish history. The Jews of Spain compresses a wealth of information into one volume with authority, intelligence, and lucidity. It deserves the
widest possible audience." -- YosefHayim Yershalmi - Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society, Columbia University.

"This unusually valuable book fills a long neglected need: a readable and highly accessible one-volume treatment of Sephardic Jewry from their
earliest origins until today." -- Benjamin R. Gampel - Associate Professor of Jewsih History - The Jewish Theological Seminary of America

"Gerber has brought [a] scrupulous sense of scholarship to The Jews of Spain...Her intelligent, gracefully written history is a welcome volume
for the general reader; it helps fill an important historical vacuum." -- Barbara Probst Solomon - The Washington Post

"...Stirring and riveting... a remarkable story of creative adaptation, minority achievement, and survival." -- Publisher's Weekly

The topic/subject which this book can be found under is History/Judaica. You can find a copy at either a local Jewish bookstore, 1-800-JUDAISM,
http://www.amazon.com (over 2 millions books, largest online bookstore, all subjects). 

Book contains pictures, references, maps and notes.

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