Books by Lois C Dubin
The Port Jews of Habsburg Trieste
by Lois C Dubin
I am drawn to this book because I am drawn to groups that are slightly off-centre. The Jews of Trieste are not the Jews of Berlin and Paris who are so much at the centre of modern Jewish History. These are Jews that don’t really fit into the story of 18th-century Jewry. They are Jews on the border.
Interviews where books by Lois C Dubin were recommended
The best books on Chaos in the 17th-Century Mediterranean, recommended by Molly Greene
Princeton professor of Hellenic studies says the 17th-century Mediterranean is fascinating because it was a time when nobody was in charge. And yet, it was possible to have “order without law”