A large part of this book has been based on the willingness of a dozen or so individuals to cooperate in recalling memories and in providing factual information. The prime supporters were naturally the late 'Bobbie' (Dawson) West and Lionel Dawson, Wilkie Collins's two grandchildren. They understood, better than most, the sensitivities of their two aunts (Wilkie's two daughters), yet they never…
Asm 02/07/24
Asm 02/07/24
Why have I written a history of the Jews? There are four reasons. The first is sheer curiosity. When I was working on my History of Christianity, I became aware for the first time in my life of the magnitude of the debt Christianity owes to Judaism. It was not, as 1 had been taught to suppose, that the New Testament replaced the Old; rather, that Christianity gave a fresh interpretation to an a…