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A national best seller, this brilliant 4000 year survey covers not only Jewish history but the impact of Jewish genius and imagination on the world. By the author of Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Eighties.
From the Reviews
"A tour de force.... A remarkable achievement."
-Arthur Hertzberg. The New York Times Book Review
"An absorbing, provocative, well-written, often moving book, an insightful and impassioned blend of history and myth, story and interpretation." -Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor
"Johnson has put together in one volume an extraordinary amount of useful information, and talks realistically about the Jews of the last four centuries, to which he devotes more than half of his book."
-Arnaldo Momigliano. The New York Review of Books
"Paul Johnson's new book is to be welcomed. It is a powerful reminder of Jewish achievement throughout the ages."
-Martin Gilbert, Commentary
"Johnson brings to his subject a vitality that can't be matched in any of the professional one-volume histories.... His writing is dramatic without histrionics, graphic without being highly colored." -John Gross, The New York Times
From the Reviews
"A tour de force.... A remarkable achievement."
-Arthur Hertzberg. The New York Times Book Review
"An absorbing, provocative, well-written, often moving book, an insightful and impassioned blend of history and myth, story and interpretation." -Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor
"Johnson has put together in one volume an extraordinary amount of useful information, and talks realistically about the Jews of the last four centuries, to which he devotes more than half of his book."
-Arnaldo Momigliano. The New York Review of Books
"Paul Johnson's new book is to be welcomed. It is a powerful reminder of Jewish achievement throughout the ages."
-Martin Gilbert, Commentary
"Johnson brings to his subject a vitality that can't be matched in any of the professional one-volume histories.... His writing is dramatic without histrionics, graphic without being highly colored." -John Gross, The New York Times