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Potok, Chaim.

Wanderings : Chaim Potok's history of the Jews. - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf, 1978. - xv, 431 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-408) and index.

Sumer : the wandering Mesopotamians -- Egypt : the silent Nile -- Canaan : the rival covenants -- Babylonia : the new Mesopotamians -- Greece : war on the margin of the map -- Rome : legions from Rome -- Palestine : rabbis from Yavneh -- Islam : nightingales in a sandstorm -- Christianity : lost in the enchanted land -- Secularism : messiahs for a broken world.

Surveys the 4,000-year history of the Jewish people from the time of Abraham to the present.

ISBN: 0394501101 9780394501109

LCCN: 78054915

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Jews--History.
Jews.
Judentum.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Juden.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: DS117 / .P65

Dewey Class. No.: 909/.04/924