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Humanitarian, philanthropist, and campaigner for Jewish emancipation on a grand scale, Sir Moses Montefiore (1784—1885) was the preeminent Jewish figure of the nineteenth century. His story, told here in full for the first time, is a remarkable and illuminating tale of diplomacy and adventure. Abigail Green's sweeping biography follows Montefiore through the realms of court and ghetto, tsar and sultan, synagogue and stock exchange.
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Oxford University Press
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2014.
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English
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"Mendoza the Jew combines graphic history with primary documentation and contextual information to analyze and explore issues of nationalism, identity, culture, and historical methodology through the life story of Daniel Mendoza, a poor Sephardic Jew from East London who became the boxing champion of Britain in 1789"--