Elka Weber

Elka Weber

The author of two books of historical fiction for children, Weber has a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern studies and is working on a collection of short stories

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Groping for Truth

Elka Weber

- The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation Editors: Yitzhak Y. Melamed and Abraham P. Socher, trans. Paul Reitter Princeton University Press, 2019, 332 pp. - The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon, published in German...
||Schama is particularly informative about the various Jews who influenced and educated Moses Mendelssohn. Ark curtain made from Fromet Mendelssohn’s wedding gown|Boxing champion Daniel Mendoza in the ring. Etching by James Gillray

Trying to Belong

Elka Weber

Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900 Simon Schama Bodley Head, 2017 790 pages,Extraordinary Individual Simon Schama’s magisterial Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900 begins with a false messiah who blusters his way into...
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