Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Place of Refuge: A History of the Jews in Cyprus

#684
Title: Place of Refuge: A History of the Jews in Cyprus
Author: Stavros Panteli
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson
Year: 2003
192 pages

Cyprus.

If read in conjunction with other sources, a reasonably good introduction to the history of Jews on Cyprus. On the positive side, this was not a topic I knew much about from ancient history up to the halutzim. On the other hand, the author assumes that referencing some events without explaining them is sufficient, and compounds this problem by stating what happened but often not suggesting why it happened. There is some repetitive material that is verbatim or nearly so, particularly in the biographical appendix. 

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