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Article: The Sacred Chain: A History of the Jews. (book reviews)
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- History Today
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- December 1, 1996
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Norman Cantor Harper Collins xxiv + 480 pp. 20[pounds]
The Jews have survived 2,000 years of persecution. How many years of freedom and tolerance will it take to obliterate them, peacefully, from the world scene? This question is being asked all the mare=urgently as demographic data chart the grim contraction of world Jewry since the Holocaust. Roughly 6 million Jews (3 million of whom were Poles) died as a result of Nazi genocide; but it is possible, given the rate of assimilation of German Jews, a century age, that much of German Jewry would have disappeared anyway, by incorporation into German and Austrian society (which was why the Nazis chose extermination of ...