Product Description: Contrary to the widespread view that nationalism is a modern phenomenon, Goodblatt argues that it can be found in the ancient world. He argues that concepts of nationalism compatible with contemporary social scientific theories can be documented in the ancient sources from the Mediterranean Rim by the middle of the last millennium BCE...read more

Product Description: During the first century A.D., the Hebrew people spread into nearly every corner of Europe with a culture just as influential on history as the Greek and Roman. This authoritative work introduces to a wide audience a reality, a heredity, and a history too often misunderstood, distorted, or unknown...read more

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Essays examine how the Jewish culture has survived in the face of persecution, dispersal, pogroms, and the Holocaust

Reviews the dual existence of Jews throughout the world, drawing on the exhibits of Tel Aviv's Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Diaspora