LA AMERICA: THE SEPHARDIC EXPERIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society Of America, 1982. Item #34945
Original Publisher's Cloth. 8vo, 220 pages, illus. Angel, (1945–) , is a “U.S. Sephardi rabbinical leader and scholar. Angel was born in Seattle, Wasington, the son of Sephardi immigrants from Rhodes and Tekirdag, Turkey, and nephew of veteran Sephardi rabbi Solomon Maimon. Angel wrote about 20 books on Sephardi history, tradition, and customs; mourning; rabbinic thought; and ethics, and many scholarly and popular articles. He won the 1988 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Jewish thought. His doctorate on the history of the Jews of Rhodes was a pioneering study in the field. Angel received the National Rabbinic Leadership Award of the Orthodox Union, the Bernard Revel Award of Yeshiva University for Religion and Religious Education, and the Finkle Prize of the New York Board of Rabbis” (Kerem in EJ 2007). Ex-library, with usual markings; tape repair to dust jacket. Interior is clean. (SEF-15-6A).
Price: $100.00