Description: Yoav Gelber traces the relation between the state of Israel and the Hashemite dynasty of Transjordan by focusing on the connection between the two regions from as early as 1921 when Abdullah first appeared on the Palestine scene and by concentrating as much on Jewish sources as British records.
Description: Josephus hardly merits a place on his own account in a series of Jewish Worthies since neither as man of action nor as man of letters did he deserve particularly well of his nation. It is not his personal worthiness but the worth of his work that recommends him to the attention of the Jewish people.
