Ruth Gay, Author . Yale Univ. $29.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-300-09271-4
How has there come to be a Jewish population more than 100,000 strong in the land Hitler promised to make "Judenrein"? As Gay shows in this intriguing if uneven history, Germany ironically served as a haven for Eastern European Jewish...
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Ruth Gay, Author W. W. Norton & Company $27.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03991-7
In this vivid and informed account, Gay (The Jews of Germany) explores the lives of Jews who fled Eastern Europe and settled in New York City between 1881 and 1911. She describes the poverty and persecution these Jews lived with in Europe and...
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Ruth Gay, Author, Peter Gay, Introduction by Yale University Press $65 (336p) ISBN 978-0-300-05155-1
A rich, often-forgotten culture springs to life in this panoramic, popularly written history. The first German Jewish settlement occurred in the fourth century A.D. in the Rhine valley, where Jews became winegrowers and craftspeople. Over the next...
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