It is truly staggering to imagine that nearly four thousand years of Jewish history could ever be condensed into a single volume. Yet this is what Moshe Weiss has accomplished in A Brief History of the Jewish People, and he has done so with a breadth of narrative and a depth of learning that render this book remarkably accessible and informative.
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In this popular account of the contours of Jewish history, Rabbi Weiss reaffirms that an abiding faith in the Torah's teachings is the mainstay ensuring our survival. -- Dr. Norman Lamm, Yeshiva University A wonderful book for the student or adult to begin one's journey into the fascinating story of the Jews. Rabbi Weiss is to be commended for his efforts and scholarship. -- Rabbi Berel Wein, author of Triumph of Survival Rabbi Weiss has performed a great service in writing a concise and readable history of our people. His work is most refreshing and necessary. -- Rabbi Shlomo Riskin The history of the Jewish people is anything but brief - so many centuries, so many countries, so many languages, so many movements, so many personalities and so much more material both primary and secondary. Squeezing all this into a slim volume that is readable, concise, accurate, and that balances comprehensive scope with rich details is quite challenging. For the most part Rabbi Dr. Weiss manages to do just that. One may quibble with what was omitted and how many paragraphs were allotted to certain topics, as one may differ on certain interpretations of events. However, this volume is a very good and efficient summary of many major element of Jewish history...This book is well suited as an introductory text of Jewish history, and the Glossary and Index are quite useful. Jewish Book World I warmly recommend this book as an elementary textbook for the study of Jewish history. AJL Newsletter This highly readable and erudite book must appeal to anyone interested in Jewish history. -- Elie Wiesel, Andrew W. Mellon, Professor in the Humanities, Boston University