Andrée Aelion Brooks

Broschiertes Buch

The Woman Who Defied Kings

The Life and Times of Doña Gracia Nasi

Beschreibung

The biography of the one of the most remarkable Jewish women of all time, who saved thousands of Jews from the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition.

Autor

ANDRÉE AELION BROOKS is a journalist, author and lecturer specializing in Jewish history topics. For nearly two decades she was a contributing columnist and news writer for the New York Times. She wrote the award-winning book Children of Fast Track Parents. She founded the Women's Campaign School at Yale University, where she is an Associate Fellow, and served as the director/editor of an important teaching series for 5-7th graders in Sephardic Jewish history and culture called "Out of Spain."Over forty years of published work including: more than 2,000 articles in the New York Times during an eighteen year span; countless pieces in other newspapers and magazines including The New York Times Magazine, European Judaism (academic journal), Equity (Worth), McCalls, Glamour, Reform Judaism, Hadassah Magazine, Historic Preservation, among many other

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Paragon House Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 614
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 846g
• ISBN-13: 9781557788290
• ISBN-10: 1557788294
• Artikelnr.: 21774714