Contents

PROLOGUE

Why have I written a history of the Jews?

PART ONE: ISRAELITES

The Jews are the most tenacious people in history. Hebron…

PART TWO: JUDAISM

Among the first group of the elite forced into Babylonian…

PART THREE: CATHEDOCRACY

In the year 1168 an exceptionally observant Jewish traveller from…

PART FOUR: GHETTO

The great Sephardi diaspora, from Spain in 1492, from Portugal…

PART FIVE: EMANCIPATION

On 31 July 1817 a precocious twelve-year-old boy…

PART SIX: HOLOCAUST

On 9 November 1914, in a speech at London’s Guildhall…

PART SEVEN: ZION

The Holocaust and the new Zion were organically connected. The…

EPILOGUE

In his Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus describes Abraham as…

GLOSSARY

SOURCE NOTES

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PRAISE

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