For 4,000 years the Jewish people have been running from Pharaohs, Babylonians, Romans, Crusaders, Inquisitors, Cossacks, Czars, and Nazis. The Jews have never amounted to more than 1 per cent of the world's population, and they have seemed to be on the brink of extinction any number of times. Yet this tiny group, alone of all people, has survived as a continuing civili-...