The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait by Ruth Gay National Jewish Book Award Winner she also illuminates its many

she also illuminates its many contradictions

spanning from the United States to Europe and British-ruled Palestine

In this delightful book

Jewish liturgy

Is religion the cure for the disease or the disease itself

The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait by Ruth Gay National Jewish Book Award Winner she also illuminates its manyThis unique book provides a panoramic overview of a now extinct culture: the 1500 year history of the Jews in Germany. Through texts, pictures, and contemporary accounts, it follows the German Jews from their first settlements on the Rhine in the fourth century to the destruction of the community in World War II. Using both voices and images of the past, the book reveals how the German Jews looked, how they lived, what they thought about, and what