Tag: modern
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A History of Israel by Howard Sachar
Rating: 5/5, excellent This 1,000 page tome is a fantastic in-depth history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It took me about four years to read and a couple of months to review, but I think it was worth the effort. It’s fairly unbiased compared to other books I’ve looked into on Israel. It leans slightly pro-Israel,…
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Maimonides: A Guide for Today’s Perplexed by Kenneth Seeskin
Rating: 4/5, good Maimonides: A Guide for Today’s Perplexed is a very slim volume, only 127 pages long, and is an introduction to Maimonides’s epically long tome The Guide for the Perplexed which was originally written in 1190. Maimonides’s main point seems to be that Jewish mono-theism is not simply believing in one God, but…