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March 20, 2009
The Santa Maria dell’Isola in Tropea, Italy. Photo: Nemanja Peric
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Book Review: The Jewel Trader of Pegu by Jeffrey Hantover

  is the heart-wrenching story of a young Jewish jewel trader who travels from the confined walls of the Venetian Ghetto to the exotic and oftentimes confusing streets of the Pegu marketplace. Although Abraham’s adventure takes place in an ancient Burmese kingdom at the end of the 16th Century, his letters home are reminiscent of...
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