History of the Jews - Softcover

Johnson, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184212479X ISBN 13: 9781842124796

Publisher: W&N, 2004

Synopsis

A classic study of the Jews by a best selling author.

In this critically acclaimed book, Paul Johnson delves deep into the 4,000-year history of the Jews: a race of awe-inspiring endurance, steadfast homogeneity and loyalty and, above all, the belief that history has a purpose and humanity a destiny.

With exacting precision and enthusiasm, Paul Johnson has mapped the lives of these people from their early ancestors in the House of David, through great periods of creativity and enterprise, alienation in the ghettos, Adolf Hitler's obsession to obliterate the race, up until the present day.

This book is a powerful argument about the nature of Jewish genius, its strengths and contradictions, which brilliantly presents the entire Jewish phenomenon. It makes incisive though-provoking sense of the whole.

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Review:

A 4000-year history from the House of David until the 1980’s. Johnson’s enthusiasm and industry are, as usual, prodigious -- Sunday Times

Magisterial and eloquent -- Sunday Times

Book Description:

A classic study of the Jews by a best selling author.

About this edition

• Publisher: W&N
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 184212479X
• ISBN 13: 9781842124796
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656