The Sacred Chain (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Norman F. Cantor
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1000 to the 1990’s
- Setting: The Near East, Europe, North Africa, and North America
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Europe or Europeans, Religion, Jews or Jewish life, Holocaust, Jewish, Jews and Gentiles, Middle East, Intellect, Jewish-Arab relations
- Locales: Africa, Europe, Holy Land, North America
Few people today lack familiarity with at least some aspects of the oft-told history of the Jews, but Norman F. Cantor brings to his task both a Judaic passion for his subject and a professional historian’s capacity for fixing both familiar and unfamiliar events over the past three millennia in a larger social and intellectual context. His book is a candid, compelling, and controversial one.
The “sacred chain” of Cantor’s title alludes to a distinctive culture and society surviving through centuries of struggle and dispersion by virtue of an abiding conviction in a unique...
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