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Gary Gerson led an uneventful life growing up Jewish in East Tennessee. This changed when he decided to walk onto the Vanderbilt football team with no prior experience, beginning a lifelong love for the game with four years of exhilaration and heartbreak. After juggling the challenges of infatuation, a bowl game, a major steroid scandal and ultimate dishonor at Vandy, Gerson's journeys brought him close to danger in Africa and India, a brush with the Yeti in the Himalaya, and more football in Amsterdam. When he fell in love with Shelley while teaching at the prestigious Cranbrook Kingswood...

Gary Gerson relates the story of the Jews in the British Isles, from the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day; how, from a foreign speaking minority they became part of the British scene without losing their Jewish identity. The book covers the Medieval period, as well as the return of the Jews at the time of Cromwell and goes on to describe the massive influx at the end of the 19th Century from Russia and Poland. The book pays close attention to the Jewish and British populations, their relationships and the historical significance of population changes. The survival and the future...