"Few peoples have drawn the 'us' and 'them' line so clearly and maintained it for so long." —From The Jews and the JapaneseIt is difficult to imagine two more widely different—almost incompatible—societies than those of the Jews and the Japanese: a people spread over the four corners of the world versus a people with an almost uninterrupted history of sovereignty in its own land: geographical heterogeneity versus linguistic and cultural...
