Title: My glorious brothers
First published: 1979
Description: Simon, the oldest of five brothers, chronicles the transformation from farmers to soldiers of the five Maccabee brothers and of their struggle for freedom against the Syrian-Greek conquerers of Judea, in a historical novel that recreates the events celebrated by Jews during the holiday of Hanukkah.
Subjects: Fiction, Jews, History, Kings and rulers, Jews, fiction, Fiction, general, Maccabees, Jewish fiction, Fiction, jewish
People: Judas Maccabeus (d. 161 B.C.), Judas Maccabeus (d. 161 B.C), Judas Maccabeus (d. 160 B.C)
Time periods: 586 B.C.-70 A.D.