No comments about Inside Separate Worlds: Life Stories of Young Blacks, Jews, and Latinos.

No comments about Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Zionist Leader.

No comments about Libbie: Teacher, Counselor, Lecturer, Author, Education Director, Consultant, and What Happens Along the Way.

No comments about Jewish Texans (The Texians and the Texans).

No comments about A Lonely Rose.

1 comments about Stepchildren of Mother Russia: The Story of a Jewish Family.

1. This book is a poignant personalized saga of a century of pre- and post-revolutionary Russian attempts to crush the spirit of the Draznin-Lerman families.Despite every attempt to contribute to the greater good of Russian intellectual and professional flourishing,generations of the families were rebuffed and villified at every turn because of their Jewish origins.The prose is gripping and the reconstructed dialogue almost fictional in heartfelt reality.The dramatic climax of the exodus from Russia at the Polish border in 1973 is a literary gem which epitomizes the triumph of the resilient family spirit over the overwhelming forces of a decaying empire.

No comments about Muse and Messiah - The Life, Imagination and Legacy of Bruno Schulz (Axis Series).

No comments about Historical Dictionary of Judaism (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies and Movements).

3 comments about Sir Sidney Hamburger and Manchester Jewry: Religion, City, and Community (Parkes-Wiener Series on Jewish Studies).

1. Sir Sidney Hamburger achieved a substantial role in Manchester, the City of Salford and the North-West region, England as chairman of the Planning and Finance Committees of Salford City Council, leader of the Labour Group on the City Council, and Mayor of Salford during 1968-69, as well as playing a leading role in the post-war reconstruction of his city. Sir Sidney Hamburger And Manchester Jewry is the story of a remarkable politician and community leader who was also deeply involved in the Jewish community's Zionist movement through the massive social and political upheavals of the post-war years. He derived his idealism from an Orthodox Judaism to which he was strictly committed. An outstanding biography of a provincial Jewish leader, Sir Sidney Hamburger And Manchester Jewry is a superb study of leadership in provincial Anglo-Jewry, an informative exploration of the collective identity of a Jewish general born in Britain to parents of Eastern European origin, and a welcome contribution to Judaic studies reading lists and library collections.



2. Since Sir Sidney Hamburger passed away in July 2001, Bill Williams' work will become the definitive biography of the man the Anglo-Jewish community called "Mr Manchester." Virtually nothing of significance happened in the Manchester Jewish community from 1945 to 2000 without Sidney Hamberger's personal involvement, surely a unique record in any major diaspora Jewish community. In addition, Hamburger was a successful businessman, outstanding local politician and farsighted health services planner and administrator. Bill Williams,doyen of the historians of Anglo-Jewry, has provided a masterful biography and fascinating record of post-war Jewish life developing, expanding and fragmenting after the damage and hardship of World War II.



3. Sir Sidney was a wonderful man and this is a fitting tribute to his remarkable life.

No comments about Father Francis M. Craft, Missionary to the Sioux.