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"The Manuscript: The Life and Times of James Weymore", is an absorbing first novel by Joel Z Wagman, which will keep the reader engaged in non-stop page turning from its first page to its last. Thirty-nine years in its writing -- including eighteen when the original manuscript was thought lost; it is a unique and compelling work of fiction. Commencing in Russia in 1892 and ending in Paris in 1978, with most of its events focused in Toronto and southern Ontario, its captivating story of lost dreams and renewal, is a landscape of love, suspense, hope, faith and struggle -- familiar to everyone in its commonality of poignancy and joy.
The sea and maritime spaces have long been neglected in the field of Jewish studies despite their relevance in the context of Jewish religious texts and historical narratives. The images of Noah’s arche, king Salomon’s maritime activities or the miracle of the parting of the Red Sea immediately come into mind, however, only illustrate a few aspects of Jewish maritime activities. Consequently, the relations of Jews and the sea has to be seen in a much broader spatial and temporal framework in order to understand the overall importance of maritime spaces in Jewish history and culture. Almost sixty years after Samuel Tolkowsky’s pivotal study on maritime Jewish history and culture and the...
This Tenth Anniversary Edition of Mr. Wagman's" Enemies and Allies", comprises his fifth work in ten years , and, is a review and analysis of the past decade, which demonstrates that the more things change : The more they stay the same."
BRANDEIS, WEIZMANN and EINSTEIN:FOUR DAYS IN CLEVELAND; JUNE, 1921", is a brief absorbing overview dealing with the problematic, complications as to Zionism, and the nascent State of Israel which occurred in Zionist history, in the mainly unexplored decades from 1890 to mid 1921.. Of particular interest is the barely hidden -- and, now almost forgotten -- conflict between three major competing nations as to the future of Zionism , reaching a fateful climax over a four day period in Cleveland, during June, 1921.. The unusual role played by Albert Einstein -- as an unwitting pawn of Chaim Weizmann -- relative to those incisive events, precipitously led to the ejection of the famed American Jurist -- Louis Brandeis, from his leadership of the World Zionist Movement : creating a schism , which continued until 1948.
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