Books in the Lands and Ages of the Jewish People series

Twenty-five years ago this year, Ilan Stavans published his first book, Imagining Columbus. Since then, he has become a polarizing figure, dismissed and praised in equal measure. This collection celebrates Stavans's work with essays that describe the good and the bad, the inspired and the pedestrian, the worthwhile and the questionable.

Between 1840 and 1880, a mature, increasingly comfortable, native-born Jewish community emerged and matured in London. The history of this community and the ways it developed are explored in this volume, using archival and contemporary advertising material that appeared in the Jewish Chronicle and other Anglo-Jewish newspapers in these years.