Jews, God and History

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.ax Dimont's spirited, fascinating book« is unlike any other history of the Jews ever written.
Vitality floods its pages. Philosophers and kings, warriors and merchants, poets and financiers, come alive as the story ranges across time and the globe. From ancient Palestine through Europe and the Orient, to America and the birth of Israel, Max Dimont shows how the saga of the Jews is interwoven with the history of virtually every nation on earth.
Here brilliantly told in a thousand and one episodes is the story of a people escaping annihilation and cultural death, fighting, falling back, advancing. Infused with an almost .miraculous life force, they have survived the death of civilizations and have triumphantly contrbuted to man's spiritual and intellectual heritage for some four thousand years.
"A scholarly and erudite work that reads like a detective story." ' —Alexander King
"Unquestionably the best popular history of the Jews written in the English language."
—Robert... Tovább

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M,
.ax Dimont's spirited, fascinating book« is unlike any other history of the Jews ever written.
Vitality floods its pages. Philosophers and kings, warriors and merchants, poets and financiers, come alive as the story ranges across time and the globe. From ancient Palestine through Europe and the Orient, to America and the birth of Israel, Max Dimont shows how the saga of the Jews is interwoven with the history of virtually every nation on earth.
Here brilliantly told in a thousand and one episodes is the story of a people escaping annihilation and cultural death, fighting, falling back, advancing. Infused with an almost .miraculous life force, they have survived the death of civilizations and have triumphantly contrbuted to man's spiritual and intellectual heritage for some four thousand years.
"A scholarly and erudite work that reads like a detective story." ' —Alexander King
"Unquestionably the best popular history of the Jews written in the English language."
—Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
MAX 1. DIMONT was educated in Finland, but has been a citizen of the United States for the past thirty-two years. He is a popular lecturer in and around St. Louis on biblical, historical, and psychological subjects. This book, his first, was in preparation for seven years. The enormously successful hardcover edition of Jews, God and History is published by Simon and Schuster.

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