Research Catalog

Title

The scattered tribe : traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & beyond / Ben G. Frank.

Author

Frank, Ben G.

Publication

Guilford, Conn. : Globe Pequot Press, c2012.

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Description

xvii, 301 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

An odyssey to discover exotic Jewish communities around the globe Jewish travelers have long combed far-off lands in search of the last fragments of the scattered tribe. Ben G. Frank has for more than half a century, has been traveling to far-flung Jewish communities, recording his observations and experiences and making them available for less-adventurous brethren to read.

Subject

• Frank, Ben G. > Travel
• Jewish travelers
• Jewish diaspora > Miscellanea
• Jews > Travel > Guidebooks
• Tourism > Judaism

Genre/Form

• Guidebooks
• Trivia and miscellanea

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-296) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Russia is in my blood : walking with ghosts in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Odessa -- Sibir, the sleeping land : riding the Trans-Siberian Railway and visiting Irkutsk, Birobidzhan, and Vladivostok -- Jews on an exotic island : discovering the magic of Tahiti, Moorea, and Bora Bora -- Welcome to Vietnam and its Jewish community : exploring Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi -- The land of golden pagodas : the religious wonders of Burma -- Incredible India : living among the Jews in Mumbai, Delhi, and Kochi -- Time stops for me in the Maghreb : Algeria and Morocco -- A Jewish community is saved in Cuba : adventures in Havana -- Israel : coming home.

ISBN

• 9780762770335
• 0762770333

LCCN

^^2011028780

OCLC

• 711046061
• SCSB-11435930

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library