![]() ![]() This is history done better than real history ever could be the narrator knows things that can’t be known, carefully drawing connections between stories that at first seem connected only because they take place in or near Makor. ![]() I don’t know where exactly Michener got his information, but it’s evident throughout the book that he really did his research. ![]() The main topics are the evolution of religion and civilization, the persecution of Hebrews, and the development of modern rabbinical Judaism and later, Zionism. ![]() The book begins with a frame story, which it returns to briefly again and again between short stories, each spanning a few years the first takes place some 11 thousand years ago, then they progress through the history of Makor and the scions of one family, skipping millennia, centuries, or decades at a time, to create a coherent chain of stories ending in a young, pre-1967 Israel. Michener, is a thick tome spinning an intricate web of fictional stories spread out through the realistic history of a fictional tel 1 called Makor (Hebrew for ‘source’) near Acre, in what is now Israel. In retrospect, I probably should have kept a reading diary, because there are so many things in this book I would like to comment on. I recently finished reading an amazing book about Israel and Jewish history, written over 20 years before I was born. ![]()
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