After Expulsion Allison Titus Sonja Wimmer

Sonja Wimmer

Motswasele II

The majority of Jewish immigrants who made their way to the United States between 1820 and 1924 arrived nearly penniless

An old man learns how to die from a poet facing death

picked him up and put him in a cage to heal him

After Expulsion Allison Titus Sonja WimmerHonorable Mention for the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer book award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History presented by the Association for Jewish Studies On August 3, 1492, the same day that Columbus set sail from Spain, the long and glorious history of that nations Jewish community officially came to a close. The expulsion of Europes last major Jewish community ended more than a thousand years of unparalleled prosperity, cultural vitality and