Historia de los judios / A History of the Jews (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Johnson, Paul

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9788498724080: Historia de los judios / A History of the Jews (Spanish Edition)

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ISBN 10: 8498724082 ISBN 13: 9788498724080

Publisher: B de Bolsillo, 2010

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Desde el descubrimiento del monote�smo por los israelitas hasta sus aportaciones en la creaci�n y el desarrollo del capitalismo, el socialismo y el psicoan�lisis, el genio jud�o se percibe en todas las manifestaciones art�sticas, cient�ficas y del pensamiento. El historiador Paul Johnson se�ala algunas de las contradicciones inherentes al hecho de ser jud�o -como, por ejemplo, la racionalidad frente al misticismo- y observa un peculiar nacionalismo, expresado ya en el Libro de los Macabeos, que desemboc� en el sionismo. "Ning�n pueblo ha insitido m�s firmemente en que la humanidad tiene un destino y la historia un prop�sito", dice Johnson. Una historia de cuatro mil a�os -de Abraham a la consolidaci�n del Estado de Israel- en la que se forj� una cultura que ha ejercido una influencia innegable en la formaci�n del mundo moderno.

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The world tended to see the Jews as a race which ruled itself in antiquity and set down its records in the Bible; had then gone underground for many centuries; had emerged at last only to be slaughtered by the Nazis; and, finally had created a state of its own, controversial and beleaguered. But these were merely salient episodes. I wanted to link them together, to find and study the missing portions, assemble them into a whole, and make sense of it" Paul Johnson in his prologue.

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"The world tended to see the Jews as a race which ruled itself in antiquity and set down its records in the Bible; had then gone underground for many centuries; had emerged at last only to be slaughtered by the Nazis; and, finally had created a state of its own, controversial and beleaguered. But these were merely salient episodes. I wanted to link them together, to find and study the missing portions, assemble them into a whole, and make sense of it." - Paul Johnson in his Prologue

About the Author:

Los libros de Paul Johnson han sido reconocidos como obras maestras de an�lisis hist�rico. Escribe para Forbes y The Spectator regularmente, y su trabajo ha aparecido tambi�n en The New York Times y The Wall Street Journal, entre otros medios de renombre.

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