While well-written, certainly not as exciting as the packaging would suggest. Nevertheless, it's a new presentation of an old story: a group of people are ostracized and forced into lines of work that no one else wants to do and then are further persecuted because they have the audacity to be goo...
I really wanted to like this book. And, to a certain degree, I did. But I didn't enjoy it. It's interesting, if not entertaining, but it's not a terrifically written assessment of history. My first problem is the title. You pick up a book called Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean and immediately ima...