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American priestess : the extraordinary story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem

Author: Jane Fletcher Geniesse
Publisher: New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, ©2008.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Anna T Spafford
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jane Fletcher Geniesse
ISBN: 9780385519267 0385519265
OCLC Number: 175289887
Description: xv, 378 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: A beginning -- Anna -- Spafford -- Thrilling ideas -- The calamity of the age -- Collision at sea -- "You must give yourself to my work" -- Return to Chicago -- The overcomers -- "Amelikans" in Yerushalayim -- The Gadites -- Bad news and good works -- Friends and a foe -- Overcoming temptation and the dangers of attachment -- Struggling on -- The Whiting affair -- The trial -- The Chicago Swedes -- The Swedes from Nås -- A cemetery war begins -- The sultan, the emperor, the Zionists, and buried bodies -- The novelist -- The new dispensation -- Triumph -- War -- Suffering -- Surrender -- The lion and the lamb -- Death -- Epitaph.
Responsibility: Jane Fletcher Geniesse.

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