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Unsettled

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Penguin Compass, Sep 28, 2004 - History - 500 pages
Far reaching, intellectually rich, and passionately written, Unsettled takes the whole history of Western civilization as its canvas and places onto it the Jewish people and faith. With historical insight and vivid storytelling, renowned anthropologist Melvin Konner charts how the Jews endured largely hostile (but at times accepting) cultures to shape the world around them and make their mark throughout history?from the pastoral tribes of the Bronze Age to enslavement in the Roman Empire, from the darkness of the Holocaust to the creation of Israel and the flourishing of Jews in America. With fresh interpretations of the antecedents of today?s pressing conflicts, Unsettled is a work whose modern-day reverberations could not be more relevant or timely.

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Review: Unsettled: An Anthropology of the Jews

User Review  - Michael Seidel - Goodreads

I thought this book started out interesting enough, however halfway through, the author started jumping around in time. It got very confusing and he lost me. I also got the impression that many of his ... Read full review

Review: Unsettled: An Anthropology of the Jews

User Review  - Kate - Goodreads

It's a scholarly work, not a pleasure-read. I read a few selected chapters out of the middle and then put it in the library at my UU church. I don't think I was the target audience. But from a historical perspective it was interesting to read a collection Jewish resistance efforts in WWII. Read full review

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About the author (2004)

Melvin Konner, Ph.D., M.D., the author of nine books, is a Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology at Emory University in Atlanta, where he teaches in the anthropology, human biology, and Jewish studies programs. He has written for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Science, and the New England Journal of Medicine.

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