Heritage: Civilization and the Jews

by Abba Eban

Book Overview

A great bestseller in its hardcover edition, this magnificently illustrated, superbly written history is the companion volume to the award-winning PBS-TV series Heritage, narrated by Abba Eban and viewed by some 50 million Americans.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067162881X
• ISBN13: 9780671628819
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Summit Books
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Even Better Than The Classic PBS Series It Inspired

The spectrum of Judaism, from pre-Abrahamic desert herders in the Fertile Crescent, thru the struggles for modern Israel, 4,000-plus years of the earth's most unique people are told in Eban's professorial overview. Eban's delivery of Jewish history is more humanistic than theistic, impartially non-biased rather than congratulatory. He is a master historian and writer and this is one of the best studies of a culture ever composed.

A brilliant condensed tour

Abba Eban the former Israeli Ambassador at the UN and Foreign Minister here provides a deluxe tour of the Jewish contribution to human civilization. He writes with masterful elegance and his deep connection to , knowledge of Jewish and world civilization inform this work throughout. This is a valuable gift for all who would understand how one small people played such a central role in the history of Mankind.