For the most part, history is more complicated and more nuanced than we give it credit for. Hindsight serves to soften and streamline the narrative. Understanding contemporary motivations requires a ...
As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall of civilizations past. Their studies have generated rival explanations of why societies ...
Author of “History of the Jews,” National Director, the Hillel Foundations. Here is one of the great seminal works of our day. It follows in the tradition of Philo, Saadiah, Maimonides and other ...