Few authors are able to fuse facts with inner meaning like Berel Wein.
For many thousands of people, he is the voice of Jewish history -
better said, he is a wise and profound teacher who sees history not
merely as a collection of events, but as a continuum from Creation
leading to the final fulfillment of the Divine plan.
In this book,
Berel Wein tells the Jewish story of a turbulent century. In
fast-moving prose, with his trademark wit and depth, he navigates the
dizzying pace of the busiest century in history, a century of hope and
Holocaust, of historic benevolence and unprecedented cruelty, a century
that saw the Jewish center of gravity transformed in unimaginable ways.
Who, in 1900, would have predicted that in 2000, Eastern Europe would be
a Jewish cemetery, that Orthodoxy in America would be resurgent, or
that Eretz Yisrael would be the State of Israel and that its yeshivos
and seminaries would be magnets for our finest and most committed young
people?
This is a book about how Jews navigated through the
decades of the century, but it is not about Jews in isolation. Berel
Wein intertwines the story of the Jews with the events of the world and
shows how each affected the other.
There is only one Berel Wein -
and he presents us with a unique book. After all the hype about a new
millennium, this is the book for Jews who want to understand an
incredible century.
