A Billion Jews: Part 2: Where are they now?

In the first installment of A Billion Jews, Isaac Ofek began an ambitious task: catalog Jewish experiences in more than one hundred nations. His work was inspired by the realization that while equally old cultures have populations numbering in the billions, the worldwide population of Jews is only 14.5 million.

Seeking to resolve this discrepancy, Ofek researched how different nations have treated their Jewish populations. He chronicles a long history of Jewish persecution-oppression that of...