Unsettled

	Author(s): Konner, Melvin Publisher: Penguin Books Format: Paperback List Price:  $16.00
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Overview:
Far-reaching, intellectually rich, and passionately written, Unsettled takes the whole history of Western civilization as its canvas and places onto it the Jewish people and faith. Drawing on archaeological findings, religious texts, diaries, poetry, and more, renowned anthropologist Melvin Konner charts how the Jews endured largely hostile but sometimes accepting cultures to shape the world around them and make their marks on history. With historical insight and vivid storytelling, Konner takes us from the pastoral tribes of the Bronze Age to enslavement in the Roman Empire, from the darkness of the Holocaust to the creation of Israel and the flourishing of Jews in America. Unsettled gives fresh interpretations of the antecedents of today's pressing conflicts making it a work whose modern-day reverberations could not be more timely.

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