The very word Jew continues to arouse passions as does no
other religious, national, or political name. Why have Jews been
the object of the most enduring and universal hatred in history?
Why did Hitler consider murdering Jews more important than winning
World War II? Why has the United Nations devoted more time to tiny
Israel than to any other nation on earth?
In this seminal study, Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin
attempt to uncover and understand the roots of antisemitism -- from
the ancient world to the Holocaust to the current crisis in the
Middle East. This postmillennial edition of Why the Jews?
offers new insights and unparalleled perspectives on some of the
most recent, pressing developments in the contemporary world,
including:
• The replicating of Nazi antisemitism in the Arab world