ABOUT THE BOOK

After 2000 years of being a minority culture, the world's Jews still make up a vibrant global community. But besides being this intercultural community the Jewish culture has always been able to interact with its co-existing societies, seeping into the surrounding cultures and vice versa.

From this meeting of the cultures, art, literature, music, humour and great thoughts have emerged, spanning Maimonides and Spinoza to Woody Allen and Leonard Cohen.

But where exactly do the Jews live and who are they? How did the Jews grow from a small close-Oriental people to a global culture? What is the significance of the large Jewish hubs in the US and Israel today? The book provides answers to all of these questions while also explaining the meaning of kosher, Torah, caddish, schmuck, Diaspora, Yom Kippur, Kabbalah and Matzah.

THE AUTHOR

Heidi Laura is a writer and journalist at the Danish paper Weekendavisen. She holds a PhD. in Jewish Studies and Hebrew and is a former associate professor at Institute for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies and employee at the Danish Jewish Museum.

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"This book is about the Jewish world, not about what the non-Jewish world has done to the Jews in our time - but vice versa." WEEKENDAVISEN

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