Title: The making of the modern Jew
Subtitle: from the Second Temple to the State of Israel.
First published: 1934
Description: Trying to get to grips with the Holocaust, I stumbled onto this book which sheds a lot of light into the build-up of the tragedy. The best this book has done for me is that it has given me a lot of insight about racism and how to deal with it and if it's not possible to change things at least to understand my reaction to it. The author writes beautifully and the book is laced with poems, biblical and ancient texts etc, an excellent read.
Subjects: Jews, History, Civilization, Judaism, Political and social conditions, Jewish question, Social conditions, Identity, Politics and government, Jews, history, to 70 a.d., Jews, civilization, Jews, politics and government, Legal status, laws
Time periods: AD 70 to about 1950