The contents include: The Age of the Patriarchs, Egypt, Moses and the Exodus; The Judges and the conquest of Canaan and the Philistines; The Kingdoms of Saul, David and Solomon; Two Kingdoms: Israel and Judah; Destruction and Captivity: Assyrians and Babylonians; Hellenistic period; The Romans and Herod the Great; Masada and Bar Kochba, revolt and destruction; Jerusalem and the Temple; Jewish Doctrine; Sects and Schools of Judaism; Jews and Judaism in Christian Lands; Jews and Judaism in Islamic Empires; Haskala; Science and Philosophy: The Jewish contribution; Art, literature and music; Jews in the USA including the Yeshiva; Modern anti-semitism, WWII and the Holocaust; Zionism, Palestine, Kibbutzim and the State of Israel; Wars for Survival: 1967, 1973 and the Cold War; Terrorism and the Inifada; and Bibliography and Museums.