Jewish German Revolution

We have all considered whether the Ten Commandments should be mandated in or out of courtrooms, whether Israel the font of civilization or the bane, and from where did the ideas of the civil society we so enjoy come, ideas like impartiality of judges, consent of the governed and minority opinion? And, oh yes, where did the American founders get the idea that the oppressed have the right to a new government? More than ever, scholars agree with the observation that Jewish principles powered our Renaissance and Enlightenment. So the question is how on earth could these principles weather the blistering medieval attack from Imperial Rome and the Inquisition? Emperors outlawed ideas of freedom, equality, and open inquiry, making conflict with Judaism inevitable. But the laws of Moses gained an unlikely ally from across the Rhine River. We can refer to the situation as “Jews and Germans, the great early years.” It turns out that the German hordes that conquered Europe after the year 400 had befriended Jews and converted to a form of Christianity comparatively close to Judaism. Because they suffered discrimination under Roman rule, the laws they originally passed followed the lead of Torah and Talmud and not the example of the empire. Slaves and minorities welcomed them as liberators. Then who, we may ask, was barbarian: Visigoth or Roman? The book Jewish German Revolution: Saving Civilization in 400, explores the question. It also determines how the break-down of Visigoth moral law led to the Muslim annexation of Spain, and then, how Catholic kings of northern Spain allied with Jews to create a dominant society. This is a big idea book that will change how you think about the most basic development of our world today. All too often, we take longstanding views of history as settled fact. This holds especially true with regard to the development of modern civil society and Western Civilization. Our ideas actually came from the East, along a Judeo- Christian-Greek axis and were vigorously opposed by Imperial Rome. This book endeavors to trace the political and military alliances that protected these ideas until the Renaissance and Enlightenment took hold.

Survivor from an Unknown War

A biography of Isakjan Narzikul, who was born in 1923 in Turkistan, then part of the Uzbek SSR in the USSR. He grew up to participate in a vast struggle of revolution within the greater context of world war, before finally moving to the U.S. He was trained as an officer in the Red Army & sent to protect Soviet Baltic acquisitions from German invasion in 1941. The Nazis threw him into a POW camp, where he joined the unknown war: one to liberate his homeland from the Soviets. Narzikul spent time in Poland, Czechoslovakia, the USSR, Germany & France. Communists hunted him in Eastern Europe after the war; & the CIA recruited him.