The Grandees: America's Sephardic Elite

Knowing very little about Jewish history, I found this book constantly amazing me, by pointing out the Jewish players of historical events (players that most school textbooks omit from their narrations). The timeline jumps back and forth a bit; later chapters will reference "future" events of certain characters, which have already been explained in previous chapters. Since this book was written in the early '70s, several of the author's attempts to bring modern and current society members into the mix were wasted on me, and only served to force me to google those people, to learn what the references were.

Not nearly as good as "Our Crowd", by the same author.

So, it's true, Jews really ARE involved in many of the events of the world. Well, the "jewish conspiracy" theory is PART right. Jews have been "involved", their lives and fortunes on the line, in many of the great ventures of human kind BUT NOT AS CONSPIRATORS. They were participating, and usually were not given the credit. They often got the "blame"! Even in America, where the Revolution owed its success to a Jewish financier, far from the pogroms of the shtetl in Europe, even in America, the Jew was written out of the history, cut out of the profits, maneuvered away from the rewards and recognition. The Jew was allowed to be "leader" only in the line of SCAPEGOATS to be blamed for the failures.

Thank Gd these people don't go into show more blood feuds every time they suffer "humiliation". Thank Gd these people are so willing to "forget" the worst humiliations. And thank Gd they ARE behind so many of the truly wonderful events that we all should be proud of. show less

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