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The "Chronicles News of the Past 3 Volume Set" is a collectible set of newspapers focusing on Jewish history and religion, specifically from Israel. Each volume in the set is dedicated to providing a detailed account of various aspects of Jewish culture, tradition, and events throughout history. This set offers a unique opportunity for readers to explore the rich heritage of Judaism through a curated collection of news and publications from the past. It serves as a valuable resource for those interested in delving deeper into the religious and spiritual aspects of Judaism.
From the heights of the Golden Age of Spanish Jewry (end of Volume II), we plunge - in this final volume of CHRONICLES - into the darkest depths of the Middle Ages.
Cataclysmic political and military events (Crusades, Genghis Khan, Hundred Years' War) combine with such natural disasters as the
"Black Death" to shake the very foundations of human sociery - and on more than one occasion the hapless, stateless Jew was made to pay the price. Bigotry, prejudice and persecution carry the day.
Yet in the midst of this era of darkness and death, the light of a better day breaks on man's horizon: Magna Carta, the invention of the printing press, the discovery of America and the opening-up of China, Reformation and Renaissance.
Even the Jews, in their seemingly hopeless state of worldwide dispersion, and robbed of their most elementary human rights, begin to bestir themselves. Periodic and increasingly vigorous Messianic movements and spurts of individual and communal migratory moves to the Land of Israel reflect a perceptible quickening of the national pulse as the Jewish People nears its own Dawn of Redemption.
All this is graphically and dramatically set forth in this volume of the carefully researched
CHRONICLES, which rounds out a unique and fascinating publishing venture: the presentation of some 4,000 years of Jewish and world history within the framework and format of a modern daily newspaper - bound together in three volumes.
The first two volumes of the set cover the biblical and post-biblical eras, as follows:
VOL. I: FROM ABRAHAM TO EZRA
(1726 BCE - 444 BCE)
VOL.II: FROM THE MACCABEES TO SPANISH JEWRY'S GOLDEN AGE
(165 BCE - 1038 CE)
