The Jew Who Would Be King

"Brings the nineteenth century to life, with its attendant disease, violence, and colonial machinations.”— Jewish Book Council “In Rovner's deeply researched biography, the adventurer's swashbuckling memoirs are. . . . a crowbar of sorts, used to pry open a window onto an era of possibility, prejudice and burgeoning colonial avarice.”— NPR This vivid reconstruction of one man’s life reveals the harsh realities and moral ambiguities of colonial power.   The Jew Who Would Be King tells the st