The Jewish Conundrum in World History

Following what may be conventionally called the Jewish ethno-cultural model and tracing its performance throughout history Alexander Militarev's book is the first scholarly attempt to apply a synthetic comprehensive approach to the Jewish phenomenon-an alternative to the metaphysical and religious ones-and to evaluate it in a comparative context. In highlighting the unique and disproportionately great Jewish contributions and the recent Russian Jewish contribution in particular to human civilization it poses as its main question: Why the Jews? Militarev dedicates his book to the analysis of the Jewish phenomenon its manifold reasons and consequences. Laying bare the kitchen of scholarly research Militarev embarks on a scholarly adventure akin to a film-noir who-dunnit complete with intrigue the need for stringent self-control inexorable doubts and the thrill of the chase after the enigma's solution.