When Mazal and Ezra ben-Yichya embarked in 1882 on their long journey from Sana'a to the Holy Land, their young hearts were filled with dreams of the glory they were sure awaited them in Jerusalem. But those dreams were quickly dispelled by the reality they encountered: dark, towering walls of stone and a community of pious but impoverished Jews with customs foreign to them. How would the ben-Yichyas find their place in this new world peopled by European Torah scholars, and who would buy the exquisite jewelry they fashioned? This stirring saga spans four generations of a family of Yemenite goldsmiths at the vortex of history in the Land of Israel. Their tragedies and triumphs, their sorrows and joys, and most of all, the heroine's profound love for the Holy City, create a vivid and lasting image of an ancient land rising from two millennia of slumber to an era of splendor.

When Ezra ben-Yichya crafted the exquisite pomegranate pendant for his bride, Mazal, in 1881, he must have known that it would become the tradition to link his family from one generation to the next. In Seeds of The Pomegranate, Bracha, the great granddaughter of Mazal and Ezra, passes on their Yemenite heritage to her modern Israeli family. Seeds of The Pomegranate, a sequel to the highly-acclaimed book, The Pomegranate Pendant, spans sixteen historic years in the Land of Israel from 1966-1982.

The Royal Cemetery at Tepe Marlik was excavated in one incredible 14-month season. The 53 intact tombs contained a fabulous array of precious metal vessels, jewelry, sculpture, weapons, and other artifacts. The gripping tale of these excavations and a detailed report of the excavation and the artifacts from the burials is presented in these two lavishly illustrated volumes. University Museum Monograph, 87

In this book, I share some of my enthusiasm as to why the pomegranate is a magnificient, trans-cultural, symbolic icon in medicine, health, and mythology.

Presents the results of recent excavations at a small, isolated but very important Iron Age shrine in Moab, southern Palestine.