Israel

Thought provoking and sometimes powerful readings about "Israel" as a concept

  • Gertrude Himmelfarb, The People of the Book: Philosemitism from Cromwell to Churchill (2011).

  • Daniel Johnson, "Hear, O Friends of Israel" (2012). An afterword to his father Paul Johnson's A History of the Jews (1987).

  • Jacob Neusner, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Exile and Return in the History of Judaism (1987).