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The crumbling of the USSR has set Russian-speaking Jews free to emigrate. From the threat of antisemitism to economic disaster, their "good reasons" to do so were numerous and within one and a half decade most of them moved out and scattered throughout the world. This book is about the million that settled in Israel, the half million now in the US and the 200.000 who settled in Germany. This book presents the comparative work of an international team of researchers which delves into the building of communities, the formulation of collective identities and the articulation of public discourse by people who, after eighty years of Marxism-Leninism and compulsory removal from Jewish culture, are now reconstructing their ethnicity. In every place, they face contrasting challenges and as a whole, constitute an ideal case for the study of the making of contemporary transnational diasporas

"Cover Page" -- "Title Page" -- "Contents" -- "The Indestructible Jews" -- "Title Page" -- "Preface" -- "Introduction: Illusions of History: Man, God, and the Clash of Ideas" -- "PRELUDE TO ACT I: Prescription for Survival" -- "Chronology For Act I: From Abraham to Jesus" -- "ACT I. The Manifest Destiny" -- "SCENE 1. The Intellectual Conception" -- "SCENE 2. The Double Revelation" -- "SCENE 3. Kings Without Divine Crowns" -- "SCENE 4. Canon and Charisma" -- "SCENE 5. The Voice of the Prophets" -- "SCENE 6. The Call to Nationalism" -- "SCENE 7. At the Crossroads of Fate" -- "Prelude to Act II: The Road to Mishna" -- "ACT II. The Existentialist Dilemma" -- "Chronology for Act II: From Jesus to Ben-Gurion" -- "THE FIRST CHALLENGE. The Expanding Society of the Roman World" -- "THE SECOND CHALLENGE. The Interim Society of the Parthian-Sassanid World" -- "Birth of the Talmud" -- "THE THIRD CHALLENGE. The Open Society of the Islamic World" -- "PROGRAM NOTE. A Cross-Examination of the Crucifixion" -- "THE FOURTH CHALLENGE. The Closed Society of the Feudal World" -- "THE FIFTH CHALLENGE. The Regression of the Ghetto Age" -- "THE SIXTH CHALLENGE. The Sick Society of the Scientific Age" -- "Jews and God in the Twentieth Century" -- "Jews and God in Communist Russia" -- "Jews and God in Fascist Germany" -- "From Isaiah to Hitler" -- "The Zionist Revolution" -- "ACT III. The Paradox of the Diaspora" -- "Chronology for Act III: From Ben-Gurion to the Messiah" -- "Illusion and Reality" -- "The Diaspora Escape Hatch" -- "The Diaspora and the World" -- "The Jewish Sisyphus" -- "The Function of Israel" -- "Bibliography" -- "The Jews in America" -- "Epigraph" -- "Introduction. American Judaism: Wasteland or Renaissance?" -- "A Note to the Reader" -- "I. THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE (1654–1776)" -- "Grandees and Marranos".

The Jews is an anti-historical thriller in the form of a Talmudic tragicomedy, taking place sometime during the Second World War. Stalin and his Minister of Security Beria are worried about the political developments in Germany, where Martin Heidegger has replaced Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of the Third Reich. Suspecting that the Frankfurt School, headed by Vice-Chancellor Walter Benjamin, has masterminded this takeover, he dispatches two Jewish actors, Salomon Maimon and Natalia Goncharova, to investigate the situation in the hope of uncovering the extent of the Jewish conspiracy. Upon arrival in Berlin, Maimon and Goncharova are received by Benjamin, who introduces them to Heidegger. The latter has stopped speaking to anyone except his mother since his rise to power, and Benjamin holds long speeches on the history of theater, the law, God, the royal gods and the old goddesses. Eventually, prodded by his mother, Heidegger marries Goncharova, surrounded by a merry audience. The novel ends on a plain somewhere between Moscow and Berlin, where the final battle for Jerusalem is being waged. In front of the entrance of a camp, Maimon and Benjamin are joined by a group of old Jews arriving by train, bringing the news of Stalin's death by circumcision. They reenact scenes from the Old Testament while Jerusalem is burning. Did the world to come finally arrive?

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A compelling and readable account of the four thousand year history of a people that spans the globe and transcends the ages. From the ancient and simple faith of a small tribe to a global religion with adherents in every nation, the path of the Jews is traced through countless expulsions and migrations, the great tragedy of the Holocaust, and the joy of founding a homeland in Israel. Putting the struggle of a persecuted people into perspective, Max Dimont asks whether the tragic sufferings of the Jews have actually been the key to their survival, as other nations and races vanished into obscu