It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creati
vity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the odds.
It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the
bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It is a story of a Jewish world imme
rsed in and imprinted by the peoples among whom they have dwelled, from the Egyp
tians to the Greeks, from the Arabs to the Christians.
Which makes the story
of the Jews everyone's story, too.
