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A History of the Jews book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. This historical magnum opus covers 4, years of the extrao /5. In Simon Schama’s book “The Story of the Jews,” he writes that Jewish history has survived, thanks to its people’s intense literacy.

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Learn about Author Central Cited by: Books shelved as jewish-history: Night by Elie Wiesel, People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, The Luck of the W. Paul Johnson says that writing A History of the Jews was like writing a history of the world "seen from the viewpoint of a learned and intelligent victim." Johnson's history begins with the Bible and ends with the establishment of the State of Israel.

Throughout, Johnson's history is driven by a philosophical interest: "The Jews," he writes, "stand right at the centre of the perennial attempt Reviews: Jewish History, Jewish Religion — 6 — War, and in particular the apartheid character of the Israeli regime in the Occupied Territories and the attitude of the majority of Jews to the issue of the rights of the Palestinians, even in the abstract, have merely strengthened this conviction.

a great history of a great people an epoch-making work covering a period of about four thousand years prof. heinrich graetz's history of the jews the most authoritative and comprehensive history of the jews in the english language handsomely and durably bound in six volumes contains more than pages, a copious index of more than Jewish history is the history of the Jews, and their nation, religion and culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions and gh Judaism as a religion first appears in Greek records during the Hellenistic period ( BCE – 31 BCE) and the earliest mention of Israel is inscribed on the Merneptah Stele dated – BCE, religious literature tells the.

The Everything Jewish History and Heritage Book: From Prepare yourself for an extraordinary adventure. In the following pages, you’ll traverse a time continuum spanning more than 4, years as you learn about the history of the Jewish people.

This is a timeline of the development of Jews and dates are given according to the Common Era, not the Hebrew calendar.

See also Jewish history which includes links to country histories. For the history of persecution of Jews, see Antisemitism, History of antisemitism and Timeline of antisemitism. The scope of History Of The Jews is too vast and its insights too edifying to be summarized in a short discussion.

To do the work justice, it needs a review the size of a small book. The question posed by the author in the Prologue: Is there a providential plan of which we are the agents?, is answered with a resounding Yes at the conclusion. Jewish History: Books. 1 - 20 of results. Grid View Grid. List View List.

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Simon Schama's new history of the Jews covers several millenia in the first of two planned volumes. Reviewer J.P. O'Malley says it drives home an. Page - Nor, indeed, does the miracle, if we may presume so to speak, appear necessary for its end; for, according to the will of the Divine Ruler of the world, a more appalling and insuperable obstacle interrupted the unhallowed work.

The discomfiture of the Jews was completed — and the resumption of their labours, could they have recovered from their panic, was for ever broken off by 5/5(1).

I highly recommend Joseph Telushkin's book "Jewish Literacy". It's a superb book for people of any level of knowledge of Judaism from total neophyte to someone like myself who has many years of formal Jewish education.

He manages to cover essentia. A national bestseller, this brilliant year survey covers not only Jewish history but he impact of Jewish genius and imagination on the world.

By the author of Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Eighties.4/5(5). A sympathetic portrait of Jewish history that is, unavoidably, sometimes idiosyncratic in its selection of material to include or omit; it's also purposefully careful to focus more on external than internal Jewish life.

Indeed, the Jews come off here as a focal point of world history, so that all of civilization's story can be told simply by following the course of Jewish history and fully.

Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. In this magnificently illustrated cultural history—the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews—Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in to the modern day.

It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of.Thus, Jews have had a continuous presence in the land of Israel for the past 3, years. The rule of Israelites in the land of Israel starts with the conquests of Joshua (ca.

BCE). The period from BCE is known as the "Period of the Kings".A History of the Jews audiobook, by Paul Johnson This historical magnum opus covers 4, years of the extraordinary history of the Jews as a people, a culture, and a nation.

It shows the impact of Jewish character on the world: their genius, imagination and, most of all, their ability to persevere despite severe persecutions.

Compelling insights.