
Jews, God and History(ISBN=9780451207012)
From Library Journal The vitality andlongevity of Jewish culture raises the question: How did thistenacious people survive throughout history when many othercultures and religions were annihilated or absorbed? Uniquely, theyaccomplished this without a homeland for nearly 2000 years. Thework, a revision of a huge history written shortly after World WarII, doesn't dwell on the Holocaust but presents a history ofancient and modern Jewish states and spells out how Torah andTalmud kept alive a tradition of abstract thought: a potentsurvival tool. The work also details differences between Sephardicand Ashkenazi Jews and the split that created Christianity. Therift among the Semites, i.e., with Islam and the Arabs, gets lessattention. Anna Fields narrates this classic, which, to Jews andnon-Jews alike, successfully captures the history of the Jewishexperience. A useful addition to most collections.AJames Dudley,Copiague, NY. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refersto the Audio
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