Howard Morley Sachar, Author . Knopf $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-375-40914-1
In the political and social chaos that followed WWI, Jewish communities throughout Europe found themselves in new, often contradictory positions that seemed to suggest fresh possibilities for integration, explains Sachar (author of the highly...
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Howard Morley Sachar, Author . Knopf $40 (848p) ISBN 978-0-375-41497-8
In this monumental and complex narrative, successor to his distinguished 1958 The Course of Modern Jewish History
(substantially revised in 1990), Sachar, generally acknowledged as the preeminent scholar of modern Jewish history, proves himself to...
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Howard Morley Sachar, Author Vintage Books USA $14.36 (464p) ISBN 978-0-679-73846-6
Sachar's epic history of the Jews of Spain and Portugal, begins before their expulsion from Spain in 1492 and continues through to the Sephardim in Israel. (Oct.)
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Howard Morley Sachar, Author Knopf Publishing Group $45 (1051p) ISBN 978-0-394-57353-3
Monumental in scope and depth, this vibrantly detailed chronicle sweeps from New Amsterdam of 1654, where Brazilian Jewish refugees established a beachhead in the future New York, to the 1980s campaign to resettle Soviet Jews in the United States....
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Howard Morley Sachar, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40960-1
The Jews of Spain, integrated into Arab culture since the 10th century, flourished under Islamic and subsequent Christian rule, becoming scientists, poets, merchants and farmers despite periodic outbursts of Christian fanaticism and conversionary...
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Howard Morley Sachar, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-679-45434-2
Sachar succeeds at a very difficult task, lucidly tracing the history of Israel's relations with Europe in one book. One of the deans of Jewish and Israeli history in the U.S., Sachar (The Course of Modern Jewish History) charts events from the...
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