David Roskies, in one hundred powerful selections, presents the two-thousand year history of Jewish responses to catastrophe. The cyclical nature of violent regimes and their overthrow is delineated in these recurring images of sin, martyrdom, and retribution that have sustained the Jewish people despite pogroms, massacres, and expulsions -- from the destruction of the First Temple through the Holocaust to the eventual return to their homeland.
- ISBN10 0827604149
- ISBN13 9780827604148
- Publish Date 15 January 1989
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Jewish Publication Society
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 668
- Language English