Reclusive academic Lord Noblet de Beeble doesn't want to get married but his overbearing mother says that he must. He places an ad for a wife in his local newspaper & the national press pick up on it. In a summer packed with suspicious exes, snobbery and social climbers, the village of Gently Rising bear witness to a public courtship like no other.
When Bella Black arrives in a sleepy Wiltshire village, it seems like the perfect place for a new start. A lovely home, exciting job and an attractive colleague or two to take her mind off her recent divorce. When people start disappearing, she realises she holds the key to a mystery bigger than she could have ever imagined.
As significant economic, social, political, and cultural transformations swept the Jewish population of Tsarist Russia and Congress Poland between 1860 and 1914, the Yiddish language (Zhargon) began to gain recognition as a central part of the Jewish cultural stage. Yiddish Transformed examines the secular reading habits of East-European Jews as the Jewish community began shifting to a modern society. Author Nathan Cohen explores Jewish reading practices alongside the rise of Yiddish by delving into publishing policies of Yiddish books and newspapers, popular literary genres of the time, the development of Jewish public libraries, as well as personal reflections of reading experiences.
The Art of Science explores the work of forty artists and artist-scientists whose work has furthered and made visible the relationship between these fields.