The Illustrated History of the Jewish People - Hardcover

De Lange, Nicholas, Ed.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1550139282 ISBN 13: 9781550139280

Publisher: Key Porter Books, 1997

Synopsis

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Review:

By most accounts Jewish history begins with the Babylonians' destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. This well-made compendium, written by many hands, is in agreement. However, The Illustrated History of the Jewish People departs from traditional history in many ways, most notably in its attempts to understand figures who have been reduced to symbols. Herod, for example, "deserved his reputation for ruthlessness, cruelty and paranoia," but was also a product of his time, caught in a complex web of politics only partly of his own making. Editor Nicholas De Lange and the volume's contributors do a fine job of gathering the many strains of Jewish history into a single narrative, which ends with a discussion of the ongoing search for peace in the Middle East.

About the Author:

NICHOLAS DE LANGE is a professor at the University of Cambridge and a renowned translator. He has translated Amos Oz’s work since the 1960s.

About this edition

• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1550139282
• ISBN 13: 9781550139280
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 434