This study makes use of much previously unpublished material to trace the history of the Jews of Carpentras, in northern Provence, from the thirteenth century through to modern times.
Recounts major highlights in the two centuries of French-Jewish history separating the French Revolution and the desecration of the cemetery at Carpentras in 1990. Utilizing an interpretive rather...
This is a book about people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation. John McPhee rides from...