Got any best one book recommendation(s) that put the Jews and their problems in good proper historical perspective? I read a book about the Muslim religion with some Xtians and it seemed the Xtians couldn't wrap their heads around the metaphors that were used in the book whereas they made sense to me. I just thought they were a little obvious and sorta primitive (the ones that gave them headaches).

One simple metaphor was that a fellow loved a woman, but couldn't be close to her, so they were apart. She died and was buried. He would go to her grave and lay on the ground striving to be close to her even though the earth separated them. Seemed pretty straight forward to me, that just as in life, in death you should strive to be closer to Allah.

But let's face it, Jews are portrayed badly in Shakespeare,etc., so it permeated cultures. That we can think people that you can talk to, laugh with, etc., are somehow inferior subhumans so it's OK to mistreat and kill them just shows me I should never put anything past Trump. We can unknowingly turn a corner and be faced with our own ugliness. I'm just happy to be able to discuss things openly with other rational people.