Isra-Isle

by Nava Semel

Book Overview

This novel is inspired by a true historical event. Before Theodore Herzl there was Mordecai Manuel Noah, an American journalist, diplomat, playwright, and visionary. In September 1825 he bought Grand Island, downriver from Niagara Falls, from the local Native Americans as a place of refuge for the Jewish people and called it "Ararat." But no Jews came. What if they had followed Noah's call? In Nava Semel's alternate history Jews from throughout the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1942134193
• ISBN13: 9781942134190
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Mandel Vilar Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.9"