Os 5000 Anos de História e Fé do Povo Judeu pdf

The official biographer of Winston Churchill and a leading historian on the Twentieth Century, Sir Martin Gilbert was a scholar and an historian who, though his 88 books, has shown there is such a thing as “true history” Born in London in 1936, Martin Gilbert was educated at Highgate School, and Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with First Class Honours. He was a Research Scholar at St Anthony's College, and became a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford in 1962, and an Honorary Fellow in 1994. After working as a researcher for Randolph Churchill, Gilbert was chosen to take over the writing of the Churchill biography upon Randolph's death in 1968, writing six of the eight volumes of biography and editing twelve volumes of documents. In addition, Gilbert has written pioneering and classic works on the First and Second World Wars, the Twentieth Century, the Holocaust, and Jewish history. Gilbert drove every aspect of his books, from finding archives to corresponding with eyewitnesses and participants that gave his work veracity and meaning, to finding and choosing illustrations, drawing maps that mention each place in the text, and compiling the indexes. He travelled widely lecturing and researching, advised political figures and filmmakers, and gave a voice and a name “to those who fought and those who fell.

Os 5000 Anos de História e Fé do Povo Judeu pdf by Martin Gilbert

Em 1998, a senhora B.K. Nehru, de 90 anos, que Sir Martin Gilbert conhece como Tia Fori, contou-lhe que não era afinal hindu mas judia e pediu-lhe que lhe recomendasse uma breve história dos judeus. Sir Martin Gilbert decidiu escrever ele próprio essa história, em forma de carta, semana após semana: Os 5000 anos de História e Fé do Povo Judeu é o resultado. Estas cartas - escritas de forma concisa e que podem ser lidas individualmente - começam com Adão e Eva, prosseguem com a viagem de Abraão desde a Mesopotâmia a Canaã, e cobrem todos os grandes acontecimentos da história judia: a migração para o Egipto, através da Terra Prometida, Moisés e os Dez Mandamentos, os reinos de David e Salomão, a destruição assíria da independência judia, desde tempos antigos e medievais até à criatividade, sofrimento e conquista dos tempos modernos. Através de quase todos os países do mundo - incluindo a China e a Índia -, Martin Gilbert apresenta uma estrutura cronológica, entrelaçada com a história de outros povos e credos, de modo a dar à Tia Fori - e ao leitor - uma ideia do vasto palco em que a história dos judeus se desenrolou.