Description
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.
A classic study of the Jews by a best selling author.
About the Author
Paul Johnson was born in 1928. He edited the New Statesman in the 1960s and has written over forty books. His Modern Times, a history of the world from the 1920s to the 1990s, has been translated into more than fifteen languages. As well as a weekly column in the Spectator, he contributes to newspapers all over the world.
Reviews
A tour de force...A remarkable achievement * NEW YORK TIMES *
A marvellous book ... This is history: richly textured, provocative and wise * PLAIN DEALER *
Book Information
ISBN 9781842124796
Author Paul Johnson
Format Paperback
Page Count 656
Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Weight(grams) 680g
Dimensions(mm) 219mm * 164mm * 42mm
