A Short History of the Jews by Michael Brenner

This is the story of the Jewish people told in a sweeping and powerful historical archive. Michael Brenner chronicles the Jewish experience from Biblical times to today, tracing what is at heart a drama of migration and change, yet one that is also deeply rooted in tradition. The book travels from the mythic wanderings of Moses to the horrors of the Holocaust; from the Babylonian exile to the founding of the modern state of Israel; from the Sephardic communities under medieval Islam to the shtetls of Eastern Europe and the Hasidic enclaves of modern-day Brooklyn.

(2010, Hardcover, 472 pages)