The Congressional Minyan

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The Congressional Minyan

Author	: Kurt F. Stone
File Size	: 53,9 Mb
Publisher	: Ktav Publishing House
Language	: English
Release Date	: 08 May 2024
ISBN	: UOM:39015049535522
Pages	: 608 pages

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The Congressional Minyan by Kurt F. Stone Book PDF Summary

"The members of this "Congressional Minyan" have little in common save their ancestry. They have hailed from the West Indies, Germany, Russia-Poland and Palestine, from New York, Kansas, Alabama and Iowa. Among them are: Harvard-trained doctors and Oxford Dons; farmers and shopkeepers; and children of poverty and scions of unimaginable wealth.".

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