The Secret of the Jews: Letters to Nietzsche »

More than 100 years ago, Mark Twain wrote: "The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?" In this seminal book, David Ben Moshe goes beyond oft-used generalities to describe how the Jews, less than 1 percent of the world population, have re-established a Jewish State in an area coveted by every major power throughout history. Most people have Jewish friends and acquaintances, yet few know "Orthodox" Jews, the Jews often described as "old-fashioned" and "unable to adapt to modern times." The author shines a spotlight on this little-known sector of the Jewish population to examine their role in the survival of the Jews. Friedrich Nietzsche is as often misunderstood as the Jews. The reader will be amazed to find out how much he admired Jews and how much his writings have in common with Jewish sacred texts.