Based upon interdisciplinary themes such as status and welfare, this text contains a collection of pieces examining old age in the study of history and places the problem of a rapidly ageing population in its historical context.

The world tended to see the Jews as a race which ruled itself in antiquity and set down its records in the Bible; had then gone underground for many centuries; had emerged at last only to be slaughtered by the Nazis; and, finally had created a state of its own, controversial and beleaguered. assemble them into a whole, and make sense of it

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