Portraits of Jews


By: Hannah R. London

Price: $29.00

Quantity: 1 available

Condition: Fine

Views: 186


Fine Clean hardcover Fine Mylared Dust Jacket Clean jacket clipped. 197 pp. 58 Illus. NO Writing NOT a library copy. Living portraits of important Colonial Americans by Gilbert Stuart portrait painter of George Washington. These faces looking back at you flies in the face of the stereotype which seeks to portray Jewish people as having all arrived in the Twentieth century. In fact visiting Swedish naturalist Peter Kalm comments on meeting Jews in 1744 in Manhattan. Excellent condition as is Mylar protected dust jacket. Red cloth handsomely bound like most if not all Tuttle books in Japan. Dust jacket present.

Title: Portraits of Jews

Author Name: Hannah R. London

Edition: First Edition

ISBN Number: 0804804591

ISBN-13: 9780804804592

Location Published: Rutland, Vt, Tuttle Publishing: 1969

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Fine

Jacket Condition: Fine

Categories: North American Folklore and Supernatural, General /Poetry/Music/Food/Travel/Art/Theatre/Fiction, Dutch and Colonial New York / New England / Virginia / French Quebec, Jewish and Hebrew Mysticism, American Revolution / French & Indian War

Seller ID: 874716900

Keywords: colonial jewish portraits gilbert stuart george washington new york jews hebrew anerica revolutionary war jews