A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People: From the Time of the Patriarchs to the PresentElie Barnavi, Miriam Eliav-Feldon Few of the world's peoples can boast of a history as long and as varied as that of the Jews, or one encompassing such a range of achievement and tragedy. It spans more than three millennia and has touched most parts of the globe. A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People for the first time sets forth this history graphically - in nearly a thousand detailed and accurate maps, brilliantly reproduced drawings, photographs, and paintings, plus chronologies and commentaries by dozens of leading experts. The result is a triumph of the bookmaking art - a comprehensive and dependable reference work, a sumptuous gift volume. Spread by spread, it covers all of the main themes of the Jewish experience: the earliest prehistory and the background of the Bible, the movements of tribes, the geographical and political setting, the revolts and wars and religious developments. We see the growth and shaping of the Jewish faith within the turbulence of Middle Eastern history. Here are the Diaspora and the spread of Jews and Judaism not only into Europe but as far as China and India; the scholars and philosophers; the medieval centuries and new diasporas; pogroms and Zionism and new homelands beyond the Atlantic; the disaster of the Holocaust and the founding of the state of Israel; and of course much more. Beyond the strictly historical, the Atlas also deals with many fascinating and important aspects of Jewish culture - languages, literature, art, and music - to give a complete picture of a people through time. |
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