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Author Freedland, Michael, author

Title Man on the rock : Mayor Solomon Levy and Gibraltar's Jewish community / Michael Freedland
Published London : Vallentine Mitchell, 2013

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (colour)
Contents FRONT MATTER; Title Page; Author's Note; Contents; Acknowledgements; List Of Plates; CHAPTER 1; A Man Called Momy; CHAPTER 2; The Boy; CHAPTER 3; A School Called Carmel; CHAPTER 4; In The Army Now; CHAPTER 5; The Working Man; CHAPTER 6; The Married Man; CHAPTER 7; The In-Between Years; CHAPTER 8; Mr Mayor; CHAPTER 9; Normality; Plates
Summary This is the story of perhaps the world's most unusual Jewish community told through the eyes of the oldest member of one of its most unusual families. Solomon 'Momy' Levy is one of the best known figures in Gibraltar. He was the Rock's first civic mayor and is a prominent and cherished part of both civic and Jewish life
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Subject Levy, Solomon
Jews -- Gibraltar
Mayors -- Gibraltar -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal.
Jews
Mayors
SUBJECT Gibraltar -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89006231
Subject Gibraltar
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780853038672
0853038678