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Israel Is Real:  An Obssessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History
Israel Is Real An Obssessive Quest to Understand the Jewish Nation and Its History
Author: Rich Cohen
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, identified with a particular place, 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. In this wa...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780374177782
ISBN-10: 0374177783
Publication Date: 7/21/2009
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
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