A History of the Jews in the Modern World by Howard M. SacharThe distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years. Tracking their fate from Western Europes age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to the post Soviet and post imperialist Islamic upheavals of the twenty first century, Sachar applies his renowned narrative skill to the central role of the Jews in many