Sacred Trash
The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Written by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $26.95
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and parchment. It was the...
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Dark Water
Art, Disaster, and Redemption in Florence
Written by Robert Clark
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $16.00
Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement.
Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and its aftermath through the...
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The Unknown Hieronymus Bosch
Written by Kurt Falk
Format: Trade Paperback, 116 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $29.95
The paintings of Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516) have captivated and confounded observers for centuries, leading to wildly varying conclusions on the artist’s spirituality. Kurt Falk presents the first analysis of Bosch’s inner life in light of a hitherto unknown—and now lost—version of one of his seminal works,
The Last Judgment, found by...
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