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Available
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Publication
New York, Schocken Books, 1948
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Language
Original language
German
Physical description
120 p.; 20 cm
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Donated by Murray and Jean Lewis, 2008. First published in 1853.
This vivid description of the two-thousand-year-old Jewish community of Rome- a rare combination of informative history and literature- has held the attention of readers for more than a hundred years. One question in particular fascinated the famous German historian: How did the Roman Jews, never numbering more than a few thousand manage to survive long after ancient republics and empires fell, and long after the power of the medieval Church had declined? The book begins with a vivid account of Titus' triumphant march through Rome after his destruction of the Temple, and ends with a picturesque description of the mid-nineteenth-century ghetto.
This vivid description of the two-thousand-year-old Jewish community of Rome- a rare combination of informative history and literature- has held the attention of readers for more than a hundred years. One question in particular fascinated the famous German historian: How did the Roman Jews, never numbering more than a few thousand manage to survive long after ancient republics and empires fell, and long after the power of the medieval Church had declined? The book begins with a vivid account of Titus' triumphant march through Rome after his destruction of the Temple, and ends with a picturesque description of the mid-nineteenth-century ghetto.
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