01505nam a22002417a 4500 20211008115541.0 211008b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0297607405 AL eng 23 909.04924 GILL Martin Gilbert 954 Letters to Auntie Fori: Five Thousand year History of the Jewish People and Their Faith London Weidenfeld And Nicolson 2002 xvii,460 p. HB 23x16cm. 20.00 £ 20.00 24-03-2021 Some 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. https://py.rohis.site/Uk World History 955 Judaism 956 Jews 957 GILBERT (Martin) 958 ddc GF 216528 216528 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 20.00 0 909.04924 GILL GF01140 2021-10-08 00:00:00 https://py.rohis.site/Uk 20.00 2013-03-24 GF