This Noble House: Jewish Descendants of King David in the Medieval Islamic East by Arnold E. Franklin National Jewish Book Award Winner in the shadow of his

in the shadow of his famous brother

Yablokoff the showman stages a vivid recreation of his times

saucy braised meats and stews

The rural town of Stockton

This Noble House: Jewish Descendants of King David in the Medieval Islamic East by Arnold E. Franklin National Jewish Book Award Winner in the shadow of hisThis Noble House explores the preoccupation with biblical genealogy that emerged among Jews in the Islamic Near East between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. Arnold Franklin looks to Jewish society's fascination with Davidic ancestry, examining the profusion of claims to the lineage that had already begun to appear by the year 1000, the attempts to chart the validity of such claims through elaborate genealogical lists, and the range of meanings