Magic Circles
V.G. Kiernan, 4 May 1989
Jewish History: Essays in Honour of Chimen Abramsky
edited by Ada Rapoport-Albert and Steven Zipperstein.
Peter Halban, 700 pp., £30, January 1989,1 870015 19 3 Show More
edited by Ada Rapoport-Albert and Steven Zipperstein.
Peter Halban, 700 pp., £30, January 1989,
A History of Islamic Societies
by Ira Lapidus.
Cambridge, 1002 pp., £35, July 1988,0 521 22552 3 Show More
by Ira Lapidus.
Cambridge, 1002 pp., £35, July 1988,
“... The fountainhead of the world’s two main families of religions was a small Near Eastern people, the Jewish. In the modern world Jews have been prominent among the creators of its arts and sciences and its politics. To define or delimit the history of this unique people is difficult, since for two millennia it has been scattered over the continents, always externally involved with alien, usually hostile neighbours, but in its inner life turned in on itself ... ”
