Author: Hannah R. London
Title: Portraits of Jews
Description: Rutland, Vt, Tuttle Publishing, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 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. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: colonial jewish portraits gilbert stuart george washington new york jews hebrew anerica revolutionary war jews North American Folklore and Supernatural Dutch and Colonial New York / New England / Virginia / French Quebec Jewish and Hebrew Mysticism A


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