This book seeks to answer the question of Jewish survival: 'What mysterious power had permitted this remarkable ancient people to withstand centuries of persecution and tragedy?' The focus is on different situations, including the upheaval against German Jews in 1848, Russian Jews in the Pale of Settlement in 1881, the Dreyfus Affair in France in the 1890s, the mass immigration to America in the early twentieth century, and the immigration of Soviet Jews to Israel after the Six Day War in 1967. 432 pages.