by Sir Martin Gilbert
|
The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War by Sir Martin Gilbert |
by Jonathan Sacks
|
by Sir Martin Gilbert
|
by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
|
See buying choices for this item to see if it's one of the millions that are eligible for Amazon Prime.
|
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
Martin Gilbert's Letters to Auntie Fori is a proud, 140-part epistolary history of the Jews as well as a parsing of the basic tenets of the faith and the meaning and form of its holy days and ritual observances. Beginning with the first chapter of Genesis, Gilbert follows his people through five millennia, concluding with the founding of Israel and, briefly, the political and religious Middle-Eastern turmoil of the present day. Especially interesting are his chapters on the Diaspora, as well as brief summaries of Jewish heroes in World War I, the dark horrors of World War II, and short recitals of Jewish luminaries in industry, politics, sports, and the arts and sciences. Though Gilbert is hardly a disinterested narrator, his erudite informality (the recipient of his letter-chapters is a well-educated and elderly friend effectively innocent of any knowledge of Judaism) serves his complex subject admirably. --H. O'Billovitch
From Booklist
Gilbert is an esteemed historian and biographer. The "Auntie Fori" of the title is an elderly citizen of India who was born a Jew in Hungary. Having lived into her nineties in relative ignorance of Jewish history and culture, she asked her longtime friend to help her learn the history of the people to whom she still believed she belonged. The result is this compact, breezy, and thoroughly enjoyable survey. Gilbert begins with the Creation myth, and his analyses of some of the more enigmatic episodes from the Old Testament are both provocative and insightful. His chapters on the medieval Diaspora eloquently describe both the triumphs and the travails of Jews from Spain to Mesopotamia. Finally, while skirting the explosive political issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he illustrates the enduring ties, both emotional and physical, that link Jews to the land that forged their national identity. For those, like Auntie Fori, hoping to understand the Jewish past and present, this book is a treasure. Jay Freeman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
See all Editorial Reviews
Martin Gilbert's Letters to Auntie Fori is a proud, 140-part epistolary history of the Jews as well as a parsing of the basic tenets of the faith and the meaning and form of its holy days and ritual observances. Beginning with the first chapter of Genesis, Gilbert follows his people through five millennia, concluding with the founding of Israel and, briefly, the political and religious Middle-Eastern turmoil of the present day. Especially interesting are his chapters on the Diaspora, as well as brief summaries of Jewish heroes in World War I, the dark horrors of World War II, and short recitals of Jewish luminaries in industry, politics, sports, and the arts and sciences. Though Gilbert is hardly a disinterested narrator, his erudite informality (the recipient of his letter-chapters is a well-educated and elderly friend effectively innocent of any knowledge of Judaism) serves his complex subject admirably. --H. O'Billovitch
From Booklist
Gilbert is an esteemed historian and biographer. The "Auntie Fori" of the title is an elderly citizen of India who was born a Jew in Hungary. Having lived into her nineties in relative ignorance of Jewish history and culture, she asked her longtime friend to help her learn the history of the people to whom she still believed she belonged. The result is this compact, breezy, and thoroughly enjoyable survey. Gilbert begins with the Creation myth, and his analyses of some of the more enigmatic episodes from the Old Testament are both provocative and insightful. His chapters on the medieval Diaspora eloquently describe both the triumphs and the travails of Jews from Spain to Mesopotamia. Finally, while skirting the explosive political issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he illustrates the enduring ties, both emotional and physical, that link Jews to the land that forged their national identity. For those, like Auntie Fori, hoping to understand the Jewish past and present, this book is a treasure. Jay Freeman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
See all Editorial Reviews
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
So you are now ninety-one years old, a great and wonderful age. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Second World War, Day of Atonement, Soviet Union, United Nations, First World War, New York, State of Israel, Five Books of Moses, Kingdom of Judah, New Year, High Priest, Second Temple, Prime Minister, Bar Kochba, Nobel Prize, South Africa, Bene Israel, Middle Ages, Tisha B'Av, Jews of Palestine, King David, Lovers of Zion, Middle East, Book of Deuteronomy New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
So you are now ninety-one years old, a great and wonderful age. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Second World War, Day of Atonement, Soviet Union, United Nations, First World War, New York, State of Israel, Five Books of Moses, Kingdom of Judah, New Year, High Priest, Second Temple, Prime Minister, Bar Kochba, Nobel Prize, South Africa, Bene Israel, Middle Ages, Tisha B'Av, Jews of Palestine, King David, Lovers of Zion, Middle East, Book of Deuteronomy New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 56
books:
See all 56 books this book cites
13
books
cite this book:
See all 13 books citing this book
- The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl on 4 pages
- A History of the Jews by Paul M. Johnson on page 228, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Jews of India: Their Story by Rachael Rukmini Israel on page 140, and Back Matter
- This Is My God by Herman Wouk on page 128, and Back Matter
- Radical Then, Radical Now (Continuum Compacts) by Jonathan Sacks on page 364, and Back Matter
See all 56 books this book cites
- The Routledge Atlas of the First World War: The Complete History (Routledge Historical Atlases) by Martin Gilbert in Front Matter
- The Routledge Atlas of Russian History: From 800 BC to the Present Day (Routledge Historical Atlases) by Martin Gilbert in Front Matter
- The Routledge Atlas of British History (Routledge Historical Atlas) by Martin Gilbert in Front Matter
- The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust (Routledge Historical Atlases) by Martin Gilbert in Front Matter
- The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History by Martin Gilbert in Front Matter
See all 13 books citing this book
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Help others find this product — tag it for Amazon search
No one has tagged this product for Amazon search yet. Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
Most Recent Customer Reviews
|
Customer Discussions
Beta (What's this?)
New! See all customer communities, and bookmark your communities to keep track of them.
|
This product's forum
(0 discussions)
Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Active discussions in related forums
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Product Information from the Amapedia Community
Beta (What's this?)Be the first person to add an article about this item at Amapedia.com.
› See featured Amapedia.com articles
So You'd Like to...
Cut Grass like Butter |
Buy Three Books, Get a Fourth Free |
|||||||||
|
Your Recent History
(What's this?)|
You have no recently viewed items or searches.
After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session. |
Continue shopping: Top Sellers
| ||||
| ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
