Today, Europe's fastest growing Jewish population is in Berlin. Germany is considered one of the most democratic societies in the world, assuming the position of moral leader of Europe as they embrace hundreds of thousands of refugees. This development couldn't have been imagined in 1945. Through personal stories Germans & Jews explores Germany's transformation as a society, from silence about the Holocaust to facing it head on. Unexpectedly, a nuanced...

"Lucy Latke's family is a family of potato pancakes. After lighting the menorah and gobbling the gelt, Grandpa Latke tells everyone the Hanukkah story, but it's up to the Latke family dog to set the record straight"--

The lives of many people were involved in the long-dreamed-of birth of the new Israeli nation.

This sequel to The Hope continues the Jewish experience into the twentieth century including the Yom Kippur War, the Entebbe rescue, and the beginning of the peace process.

A reimagining of the story of Jesus Christ in which the death of a sermon-giving, sick-healing Jewish man in Roman-occupied Judea prompts four people to tell their tales.

Vitality floods its pages. Philosophers and kings, warriors and merchants, poets and financiers come alive as the story ranges across time and the globe. From ancient Palestine through Europe and the Orient, to America and modern Israel, Max Dimont shows how the saga of the Jews is interwoven with the history of virtually every nation on earth.

Brilliantly narrated in a thousand and one episodes, this newly revised and updated edition tells the

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Traces the efforts of two women scholars who recovered what has become the most vital cache of Hebrew manuscripts ever discovered, in an account that explains what the findings reveal about Mediterranean Judaism.

Discusses the experiences of people who survived the Holocaust, the trials of Nazi leaders at Nuremberg, the establishment of the state of Israel, the search for justice, and efforts of the survivors to begin new lives.

Presents the great cultural traditions of ancient Israel and unearths their archaeological, historical, and literary past. Charting the region's cyclical course of expansion and decline through three main waves of settlement, this work focuses on environmental perspectives and cultural ecology in ancient Israel and also explores religious practices, political and social organization, art and architecture, metalworking, intellectual accomplishments...

Presents the historical development of Judaism from the age of the patriarchs to the birth of Israel and the Jewish faith around the world today.