Cultures of the Jews: A New History (National Jewish Book Award)

WITH MORE THAN 100 BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT

Who are “the Jews”? Scattered over much of the world throughout most of their three-thousand-year-old history, are they one people or many? How do they resemble and how do they differ from Jews in other places and times? What have their relationships been to the cultures of their neighbors?

To address these and similar questions, twenty-three of the finest scholars of our day—archaeologists, cultural historians, literary critics, a...