Eyewitness to Jewish History
Come face-to-face with the major figures and events in Jewish history .
Prepare to feel the joy and pain of the Jewish experience as you never have before. In Eyewitness to Jewish History, Rabbi Benjamin Blech takes you aboard a literary time machine in which you’ ll do more than read about major events in Jewish history– you’ ll witness them, take part in them, and feel their deep and lasting impact.
Featuring hundreds of excerpts from diaries, journals, letters, newspaper accounts, publ testimony, official communications, and ancient documents such as the Torah, this unique chronicle provides memorable snapshots of daily life from biblical times to the modern day. These vivid and passionately written accounts, arranged in chronological order, transport you across space and time to witness:
The birth of the Jewish people
The building and destruction of the two Temples
The struggle to survive in the early years of the Diaspora
The Golden Age of Spain
Persecutions and expulsions throughout Europe
The horrors of the Holocaust
The founding of the modern state of Israel
And much more
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