Jews, God, and History, Max I. Dimont
Jews, God, and History, Max I. Dimont
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Jews, God, and History

Author: Max I. Dimont

Narrator: Anna Fields

Unabridged: 17 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/09/2010

Synopsis

Vitality floods its pages. Philosophers and kings, warriors and merchants, poets and financiers come alive as the story ranges across time and the globe. From ancient Palestine through Europe and the Orient, to America and modern Israel, Max Dimont shows how the saga of the Jews is interwoven with the history of virtually every nation on earth.Brilliantly narrated in a thousand and one episodes, this newly revised and updated edition tells the story of a people escaping annihilation and cultural death, fighting, falling back, advancing. Infused with an almost miraculous life force, they have survived the death of civilizations and have triumphantly contributed to man’s spiritual and intellectual heritage for some four thousand years.

About Max I. Dimont

Max I. Dimont (1912–1992) was born in Helsinki, Finland, and came to the United States in 1930. He taught himself English by reading Shakespeare’s plays, the Bible, and American plays translated into Finnish. After serving in intelligence with the US Army during World War II, he worked in public relations and employee relations for Edison Brothers Stores in St. Louis. Following the first publication of the bestselling Jews, God, and History, he lectured extensively on Jewish history throughout the United States, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, and Finland until his death in 1992.

About Anna Fields

Anna Fields (1965–2006), winner of more than a dozen Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award in 2004, was one of the most respected narrators in the industry. Trained at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, she was also a director, producer, and technician at her own studio, Cedar House Audio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jsb

I strongly preferred Paul Johnson's History of the Jews to Max Dimont's The Jews, G'd, and History. Dimont is well-informed, but he has some totally bizarre opinions. Edmund Burke is an intellectual father of the American Revolution? The Renaissance wasn't real in Poland? Jews and Greeks shared the s......more

Goodreads review by Joseph

[This review also appears on FingerFlow.com, a site for review and discussion of creative works.] Jews, God and History is a phenomenal work which undertakes the difficult and tedious task of presenting the 4,000 year history of the Jewish people. Instead of presenting this history from an insulated......more

Goodreads review by Mommalibrarian

Well written, interesting, not dry or academic non-fiction. This book starts with history so old it is barely described in the Bible. I suppose the author is Jewish but this is not a religious book and it covers the birth of Christianity, its ups and downs and the same for Islamic history objectivel......more

Goodreads review by L

VERY interesting, not only due to its (at times questionably) factual content but for its datedness and bizarre editorial quality as well. This is great for learning a vast amount of the Jewish timeline in a relatively condensed format, but it definitely needs to be supplemented by more reliable and......more

Goodreads review by Kristi

If you're looking for a non-biased, objective work on the Jewish history, then steer away from this book. Here you will find that everything/everyone worth mentioning in this world was Jewish, or was somehow influenced by Jews. Otherwise, it was easy to read, full of humor and historical facts.......more

Quotes

“Unquestionably the best popular history of the Jews written in the English language.” Los Angeles Times

“Successfully captures the history of the Jewish experience. A useful addition to most collections.” Library Journal

“The author has turned four thousand years in the life of one people into a lively, canny, authoritative, brainy, and informative page-turner…[Anna Fields’] listener-friendly cadences express not only the sense of the lines but also the connections among ideas and the author’s underlying intelligence.” AudioFile

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