Heritage: Civilization and the Jews

By Abba Eban

Book Overview

From the birth of Jewish history to the rebirth of the State of Israel, the author, the former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and the U.N., traces four thousand years of Jewish experience.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671441035
• ISBN13: 9780671441036
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Summit Books
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 2.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Even Better Than The Classic PBS Series It Inspired

The spectrum of Judaism, from pre-Abrahamic desert herders in the Fertile Crescent, thru the struggles for modern Israel, 4,000-plus years of the earth's most unique people are told in Eban's professorial overview. Eban's delivery of Jewish history is more humanistic than theistic, impartially non-biased rather than congratulatory. He is a master historian and writer and this is one of the best studies of a culture ever composed.

A brilliant condensed tour

Abba Eban the former Israeli Ambassador at the UN and Foreign Minister here provides a deluxe tour of the Jewish contribution to human civilization. He writes with masterful elegance and his deep connection to , knowledge of Jewish and world civilization inform this work throughout. This is a valuable gift for all who would understand how one small people played such a central role in the history of Mankind.