Jacob Beller

Gebundenes Buch

Jews in Latin America

Beschreibung

The product of many years of intensive work, this volume represents the first time a comprehensive study of such magnitude and scope has been prepared for the reading public. A work that is not only easy-to-read, but is meticulous in its factual information. Mr. Beller is a Canadian journalist who spent many years in Latin America studying all the communities and their people at first hand. Combining the skills of journalist and scholar, Jacob Beller presents the first comprehensive first-hand study of the Jewish communities of Latin America. Both highly readable and factually meticulous. This title, originally published in 1969, is available on-demand only.

Autor

Jacob Beller was born in Grodzisko, Galicia, in 1898. He attended the yeshiva in Rzeszow and later the Hebrew Teachers Seminary in Lemberg and the Export Academy in Vienna. In 1922 he was engaged as Hebrew teacher by the ICA in Argentina, in the colony of Narcisse Lewin.Dr. Beller started his journalistic career with Di Presse and later wrote for El Diario Israelita and Habimah HaIvrith I in Buenos Aires. He later served as Latin American correspondent of the Israeli newspaper Davar, managing editor of the Toronto Daily Hebrew Journal, and Latin American correspondent for the Toronto Globe & Mail and the New York Daily Jewish Forward. In 1955, he was awarded the Surovitch Prize by the World Congress for Jewish Culture in recognition of his monumental study entitled Across Twenty Latin American Countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jonathan David Co., Inc
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1969
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 672g
• ISBN-13: 9780824604769
• ISBN-10: 0824604768
• Artikelnr.: 24774718