The History of The Jewish People - 2 Volume Set

From Nechemia
to the Present

Volume I
The Second Temple &
The Thousand Years After

Volume II
The Last Millenium

Remember your days long gone by
Ponder the years of each generation.
Ask your Father and let him tell you,
and your grandfatter, who will explain it."
(Denteronomy 3217)

The sensitive student of Jewish history is frequently
troubled by doubts and fundamental questions regarding
Heaven's providence and the purpose of the Jewish
Nation and its many travails. Many of these inquiries,
if not all, require the background and knowledge of one
well-steeped in Jewish hashkafah to provide satisfactory
answers. Rabbi Chaim Dov Rabinowitz zt"l, b. 1911,
has earned fame as author of Da'at Sofrim, his monumental
and acclaimed commentary on the Tanach. In his youth he
studied in the Yeshivot of Baranowitz and Grodno, where
he was known as "Chaim the matmid from Zoblin."
He is also author of several novels describing the spiritual
conflicts of Yeshivah students in pre-World War Il Poland
and Lithuania. He later emigrated to the Land of Israel, but also spent many
years in the United States where he resided in Cleveland, Ohio. There he was
asked by Rabbi Mordecai Katz zt"l, the late Rosh Yeshivah of Telz, to compose a
work on the history of the Jewish Nation from the Second Temple period onward
which would present the Torah view of events which affected the Jewish Nation
over the last 2,500 years. His work is not a history book in the classic sense with
its litany of dates and data. In his book,
Rabbi Chaim Dov Rabinowitz zt"l often reiterates the theme that mere study
of history for curiosity's sake is a waste of time which could be utilized for more
constructive purposes. Rather, the author strives to impart to
readers concepts of hashkafah and the Torah's perception of events
which have affected the course of Jewish history up to the
present day. These ideas are found in the Discussion
sections appended to many chapters which provide
answers to questions the perceptive reader asks
while reading the history text.