Max I. Dimont

“All civilizations we know about have left a record of their history in material things. We know them through tablets or ruins dug up by archaeologists. But we know of the Jews in ancient times mostly from the ideas they taught and the impact which these ideas had upon other people and other civilizations. There are few Jewish tablets to tell of battles and few Jewish ruins to tell of former splendor. The paradox is that those people who left only monuments behind as a record of their existence have vanished with time, whereas the Jews, who left ideas, have survived.”
― Max I. Dimont

“It was the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), discoverer of Troy, who invented the legend of the blond, Aryan Greek. According to Schliemann, the first Greeks appeared from some mystic Nordic spawning ground, invaded Greece, and out of their own genius, effortlessly created a culture containing the seeds that gave birth to Western civilization. This hypothesis was so flattering that the West immediately accepted it as revealed truth, and endless repetition has hardened it into a dogma that is difficult to dissolve, even with contrary evidence. Greek history did not begin with Aryans but with Semites, and Greek civilization did not begin in Greece but in Crete. The first Greeks, referred to as “Achaeans” by Homer”
― Max I. Dimont, A History of the Jews: The Indestructible Jews, The Jews in America, and Appointment in Jerusalem