Scattered Among the Peoples: The Jewish Diaspora in Twelve Portraits

Scattered Among the Peoples is historian Allan Levine's vivid and human account of how the Jews survived 800 years of persecution and forced migration. Structured as a chronological series of twelve moment-in-time portraits-from the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 to the emigration of Soviet Jews from Russia following the Six Day War in Israel in 1967-focusing on individuals and their interaction with their families and society, the narrative carries readers through the economic, political, social, and intellectual climates of some of the world's most famous and fascinating cosmopolitan centers.