01425nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200240008810000190011224500930013126000420022430000300026636500330029652008180032965000180114765000120116565000090117770000210118620211008115541.0211008b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0297607405  cAL  aeng  223a909.04924bGILL  aMartin Gilbert  aLetters to Auntie Fori:bFive Thousand year History of the Jewish People and Their Faith  aLondonbWeidenfeld And Nicolsonc2002  axvii,460 p.bHBc23x16cm.  b20.00c£d20.00f24-03-2021  aSome time ago an elderly Indian friend of Martin Gilbert's, known to him as Auntie Fori, revealed that she was actually Jewish and asked him to recommend a history of the Jews. He decided to write it for her, in letter form, week by week. This book is the result. The letters begin with Abraham's journey from Mesopotamia to Canaan and cover all the great events of Jewish history: the migration to Egypt, entering the Promised Land, Moses and the Ten Commandments, the kingdoms of David and Solomon, the Assyrian destruction of Jewish independence, and so on through ancient and medieval times up to the present day. As one would expect, he writes particularly well - and movingly - about the Holocaust. The last couple of letters in this selection are about the modern state of Israel.uhttps://py.rohis.site/Uk  aWorld History  aJudaism  aJews  aGILBERT (Martin)