President of Israel Shimon Peres, in a speech to the German Bundestag on 27 January 2010, convened to mark Holocaust Day, voiced an often-repeated enigma that continues to trouble humanity over a half a century after the Holocaust: "The question still remains today why did the Nazis see in the existence of Jews a great and immediate danger? What induced them to invest in the killing machine such extensive resources? What motivated the Nazis to continue operating with such determination to the very end, even though their defeat had already appeared on the horizon? . . . The Nazi rabid hatred...
President of Israel Shimon Peres, in a speech to the German Bundestag on 27 January 2010, convened to mark Holocaust Day, voiced an often-repeated eni...
"Yehuda Cohen's aim is nothing less than to lay before us a full and detailed account of both the origins and prospect of British national identity and religious heritage. By charting with great skill and amazing erudition the evolution of British nationality from antiquity to the present, the author shows us Britain's unique place and role in the European Union."
Prof. Avihu Zakai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, author of Exile and Kingdom: History and Apocalypse in the Puritan Migration to America (Cambridge University Press).
In the series: A Post- or...
"Yehuda Cohen's aim is nothing less than to lay before us a full and detailed account of both the origins and prospect of British national identity...