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Israel is real /

In AD 70, when the Second Temple was destroyed, a handful of visionaries saved Judaism by reinventing it--by taking what had been a national religion and turning it into an idea. Jews no longer needed Jerusalem to be Jews. Whenever a Jew studied--wherever he was--he would be in the holy city. But in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cohen, Rich
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Jews > History.
Cohen, Rich > Travel > Israel.
Israel > Description and travel.
Table of Contents:
  • The fire
  • The vineyard
  • The son of the star
  • A city in a mirror
  • Messiahs: true or false?
  • The ghetto Jew
  • House hunting
  • The flâneur
  • The night squads
  • Killing Adolph again
  • First good war in a long, long time
  • The new Jew
  • God made the world in six days
  • The Jerusalem syndrome
  • The surprise
  • Israel is too real
  • Ninth of Av.