Category: Middle Ages

July 1, 2010

The Jewel Trader of Pegu by Jeffery Hantover ** (of 4)

A Sixteenth Century Jew from the Venetian ghetto travels to the east Indies to trade for Jewels so we can compare the lives of Jews...

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June 21, 2010

A Journey to the End of the Millennium by A.B. Yehoshua **** (of 4)

The year is 999. European Christians are awaiting the return of the Messiah. Ben Attar a Jewish Moroccan trader packs a ship with his desert...

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June 21, 2010

Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon ** (of 4)

Subtitled “Jews with Swords,” Chabon writes an adventure story of a pair of Jewish adventurers in the year 995: one from Frankish Europe and another...

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June 21, 2010

The Coffee Trader by David Liss *** (of 4)

A Jewish escapee from the Spanish Inquisition makes his living on the Amsterdam stock market, where shrewd trading skills run up to the border of...

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April 30, 2010

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks *** (of 4)

The plot is contrived and straight as ruler and the characters are one dimensional, but the book is still a great read. Like Brooks’ People of...

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April 23, 2010

The Coffee Trader by David Liss *** (of 4)

A Jewish escapee from the Spanish Inquisition makes his living on the Amsterdam stock market, where shrewd trading skills run up to the border of...

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