Though over 500 pages, it covers a vast field and is necessarily hurried. It has the strengths and the weaknesses of the genre. His book is thus in the tradition of John Gunther and Anthony Sampson: that is, a highly readable mixture of facts, statistics, brief personal profiles, interviews and vignettes. What he is attempting here is a world- wide anatomy of the present Jewish dispersal, a demographic guide to Jewish communities scattered over six continents. He has written a study of modern Jewish history and three books on Israel itself, as well as other works on the Middle East. Professor Howard Sachar of George Washington University is one of the most learned and vivid writers on the situation of contemporary Jewry. TO ALL JEWS, and to anyone interested in the Jews, this can fairly be termed an indispensable book, because there is no other like it. By Paul Johnson Paul Johnson is the author of "Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Eighties." May 26, 1985ĭIASPORA An Inquiry Into the Contemporary Jewish World.By Howard M.
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