From the Ends of the Earth : The Jews in the 20th Century

by Martin Gilbert

The Jewish story is an extraordinary of a chosen race but a difficult people, living in all countries but until recently without one to call its own. Over the last 100 years and across the world, Jews have been subjects and citizens, refugees and victims, as well as making enormous contributions to business, medicine, science, culture and political thought. The achievements of individual Jews in the 20th century are well known - Einstein and Kafka alone epitomize science and literature - and as a race they suffered that period's greatest tragedy. This photographic history brings the turbulence and dynamism of the century to life.

Genres: History, Jewish, World History, Religion, Politics, Nonfiction

376 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

The official biographer of Winston Churchill and a leading historian on the Twentieth Century, Sir Martin Gilbert was a scholar and an historian who, though his 88 books, has shown there is such a thing as “true history”

Born in London in 1936, Martin Gilbert was educated at Highgate School, and Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with First Class Honours. He was a Research Scholar at St Anthony's College, and became a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford in 1962, and an Honorary Fellow in 1994. After working as a researcher for Randolph Churchill, Gilbert was chosen to take over the writing of the Churchill biography upon Randolph's death in 1968, writing six of the eight volumes of biography and editing twelve volumes of documents. In addition, Gilbert has written pioneering and classic works on the First and Second World Wars, the Twentieth Century, the Holocaust, and Jewish history.
Gilbert drove every aspect of his books, from finding archives to corresponding with eyewitnesses and participants that gave his work veracity and meaning, to finding and choosing illustrations, drawing maps that mention each place in the text, and compiling the indexes. He travelled widely lecturing and researching, advised political figures and filmmakers, and gave a voice and a name “to those who fought and those who fell.”

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Reviews

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an excellent book about the history of the Jews in the 20th century. Illustrated in 385 black & white printed photographs, reading and viewing the book takes us, the reader, through poignant times of the great and the small, the celebrated and the suffered; those times in the previous century wherein the Jews have contributed so much to the making of global history.
Recommended, especially for the photographs.

[Matty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting in every way