The story of the Jewish people : letters to Auntie Fori / / Martin Gilbert

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822358203321
• Autore: Gilbert Martin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Place of publication not identified] : , : RosettaBooks, , [2014]; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-7953-4283-7; 0-7953-3735-3; 0-7953-3739-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Disciplina: 909.04924
• Soggetti: Jews - History; Judaism - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part One THE BIBLICAL ERA; Part Two THE HISTORICAL ERA; Part Three THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; Part Four FAITH AND WORSHIP; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; MAPS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Sir Martin first met "Auntie Fori" in 1958,when he arrived in New Delhi with a letter of introduction from her son, a fellow Oxford student. Their friendship flourished for forty years through correspondence and visits to the capitals where her husband, the diplomat B. K. Nehru, was posted. Then, at her ninetieth birthday celebration in 1998, Auntie Fori told her "adopted nephew" that she was not of Indian birth but was actually Hungarian-and Jewish. She did not know what this Jewish identity involved, historically or spiritually, and she asked him to enlighten her. <