The Jew Who Would Be King - Rovner, Adam Laurence
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"This astonishing story of a British Jewish adventurer who made an unlikely career for himself on Africa's colonial frontier doubles as a searching inquiry into the ways that slavery, sexism, racism, and antisemitism shaped Victorian society. A dazzling achievement."--Dane Kennedy, author of The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World "Inspired, entertaining, and thoroughly unsentimental, The Jew Who Would Be King is a masterwork about the turbulent life of a heretofore neglected nineteenth-century personage. A veritable page-turner."--Nathan P. Devir, author of New…mehr

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"This astonishing story of a British Jewish adventurer who made an unlikely career for himself on Africa's colonial frontier doubles as a searching inquiry into the ways that slavery, sexism, racism, and antisemitism shaped Victorian society. A dazzling achievement."--Dane Kennedy, author of The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World "Inspired, entertaining, and thoroughly unsentimental, The Jew Who Would Be King is a masterwork about the turbulent life of a heretofore neglected nineteenth-century personage. A veritable page-turner."--Nathan P. Devir, author of New Children of Israel: Emerging Jewish Communities in an Era of Globalization
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Autorenporträt
Adam Rovner is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver. He is author of the acclaimed In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel.