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The Lost Tribes of Israel: The History of a Myth
Tudor ParfittIn his new book, Tudor Parfitt travels the world to trace the history of this compelling myth. Tudor Parfitt is the author of Operation Moses and Journey to a Vanished City.
The Jews in Palestine, 1800-1882
Tudor ParfittTudor Parfitt argues that theold community, the Yishuv, played a central role in the creation ofJewish policy in Palestine.
Black Jews in Africa and the Americas
Tudor ParfittTudor explains how many African peoples came to think of themselves as descendants of the ancient tribes of Israel.
Memory and Ethnicity: Ethnic Museums in Israel and the Diaspora
PreviewEthnic Museums in Israel and the Diaspora Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Dario Miccoli, Tudor Parfitt. Memory and Ethnicity: Ethnic Museums in Israel and the Diaspora, Edited by Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Dario Miccoli and Tudor Parfitt This book ...
The Lost Ark of the Covenant: The Remarkable Quest for the ...
Tudor ParfittIn 2006, he made an incredible journey to its final resting place and in February 2008 he will reveal this to the world. This is the amazing story of his quest.
Genetics, Mass Media and Identity: A Case Study of the ...
Tudor ParfittThis community appears to have been first 'discovered' by Jason Francisco, a photographer and a writer who got acquainted with them during his stay in Andhra Pradesh in 1994. He met his first 'Telugu Jewish' family in the town of ...
Genetics, Mass Media and Identity: A Case Study of the ...
Tudor Parfitt... as an ancient progenitor of such communities' (Bradman and Thomas 1998b: 6 ). Harry Ostrer, a geneticist from the New York University School of Medicine, stressed that 'Who is a Jew is a matter of rabbis, not the scientists' (Epstein 2001).
The Road to Redemption: The Jews of the Yemen, 1900-1950
Tudor ParfittThis book examines new and fascinating archive material on the Jews of Yemen 1900-50.
Journey to the Vanished City: The Search for a Lost Tribe of ...
Tudor ParfittAn authority on the Lost Tribes of Israel describes his journey to solve the origins of the Lemba of Zimbabwe, a people who claim they are descendants of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon
Judaising Movements: Studies in the Margins of Judaism in ...
Tudor ParfittThis book will look at the role of colonialism in the development of Judaising movements throughout the world, including New Zealand, Japan, India, Burma and Africa. Particular attention will be paid to the Lemba tribe of Southern Africa.
Encyclopedia of Tudor England
John A. WagnerAuthority and accessibility combine to bring the history and the drama of Tudor England to life.
Tudor England
John GuyTudor England is a compelling account of political and religious developments from the advent of the Tudors in the 1460's to the death of Elizabeth I in 1605.
Mary Tudor: Old and New Perspectives
PreviewThis collection of interdisciplinary essays examines the origins and growth of Mary Tudor's historical reputation, from the reign of Elizabeth I up to the 20th century.
The Ballets of Antony Tudor: Studies in Psyche and Satire
Judith Chazin-BennahumWhile not a biography in the traditional sense, the book does shed fascinating light on the private life of Antony Tudor.
A Brief History of the Tudor Age
Jasper RidleyFrom the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this was an astonishingly eventful and contradictory age.
Six Tudor Queens: Anne Boleyn, A King's Obsession: Six Tudor ...
Alison WeirAnne Boleyn: A King's Obsession by bestselling historian Alison Weir, author of Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, is the second captivating novel in the Six Tudor Queens series.
House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty
Robert HutchinsonKing-makers - Conspirators - Criminals - Nobles - Seducers The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the true power behind the throne.
Six Tudor Queens: Writing a New Story
Alison WeirSix Tudor Queens: Writing a New Story is an introduction to the Six Tudor Queens series by eminent historian Alison Weir.
The Grand Design of God: The Literary Form of the Christian ...
C. A. Patrides220 ff.; F. Smith Fussner, Tudor History and the Historians (1970); May McKisack, Medieval History in the Tudor Age (Oxford, 1971); and the more comprehensive studies by Herschel Baker, The Race of Time: Three Lectures on Renaissance ...
The Early Tudor Country House: Architecture and Politics ...
Maurice HowardThe popular view of the early Tudor country house is shaped by the accidents of survival and therefore by a false idea of what these buildings were really like.
Game of Queens
Sarah GristwoodThe players in this Game of Queens are: Isabella of Castile, Margaret of Austria, Louise of Savoy, Anne de Beaujeu, Katherine of Aragon, Marguerite of Navarre, Anne Boleyn, Catherine de Medici, Mary Tudor, Elizabeth Tudor, Jeanne d'Albret ...
Betrayed, Betrothed and Bedded
Juliet Landon... Tudors Philippa Jones Henry VIII Lacey Baldwin Smith Life in a Tudor Palace Christopher Gidlow House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty (for the Howard family) Robert Hutchinson Thomas Cromwell Robert Hutchinson The ...
Tudor Verse Satire
PreviewTUDOR VERSE SATIRE Edited by K. W. Gransden BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC COLLECTIONS: English Literary Criticism - Pre—17OO B L O O M S B U R Y OOOOOO ' NEW' DELHI ' NEW YORK ' SYDNEY Bloomsbury Academic An imprint ...
Britain's Tudor Maps: County by County
John SpeedBritain’s Tudor Maps: County by County reproduces the maps of John Speed’s 1611 collection The Theatre of Great Britaine in large, easy-to-read format for the first time.
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
PreviewG. Parfitt (1992); English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century, ed. G. Waller (1993); The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse, ed. D. Norbrook and H. Woudhuysen ( 1993); Women Poets of the Renaissance, ed. M. Wynne-Davies (1999); Early ...
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