This Noble House: Jewish Descendants of King David in the Medieval Islamic East by Arnold E. Franklin New Year Confessions of a Yiddish Writer 9781949217049 Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays deepens the reader's understanding of an incredible Yiddish woman and her experiences as a survivor in the post Holocaust world one of the most revered Yiddish authors to survive the Holocaust the book argues that this "genealogical turn" should be understood as a consequence of Jewish society's dynamic encounter with its Arab Islamic milieu and constituted a selective adaptation to the importance of ancestry in the dominant cultural environment This Noble House explores the preoccupation with biblical genealogy that emerged among Jews in the Islamic Near East between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries