Publisher's Synopsis
Come face–to–face with the major figures and events in Jewish history Prepare to feel the joy and pain of the Jewish experience as you never have before. In Eyewitness to Jewish History, Rabbi Benjamin Blech takes you aboard a literary time machine in which youll do more than read about major events in Jewish historyyoull witness them, take part in them, and feel their deep and lasting impact. Featuring hundreds of excerpts from diaries, journals, letters, newspaper accounts, public testimony, official communications, and ancient documents such as the Torah, this unique chronicle provides memorable snapshots of daily life from biblical times to the modern day. These vivid and passionately written accounts, arranged in chronological order, transport you across space and time to witness: The birth of the Jewish people The building and destruction of the two Temples The struggle to survive in the early years of the Diaspora The Golden Age of Spain Persecutions and expulsions throughout Europe The horrors of the Holocaust The founding of the modern state of Israel And much more
