The Jews of San Nicandro

by John Davis and John A. Davis

The intimate story of an Italian peasant community's unique conversion to the Jewish faith, and its links to major changes that swept twentieth-century Europe

Not many people know of the utterly extraordinary events that took place in a humble southern Italian town in the first half of the twentieth century--and those who do have struggled to explain them. In the late 1920s, a crippled shoemaker had a vision where God called upon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300114257
• ISBN13: 9780300114256
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"