char's Reviews > Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History

The book was extremely thorough and educational, and works both as a collection of individual encyclopedic entries and as a whole cohesive narrative. However, it only gets three stars because of the distracting and persistent Islamaphobia that came up every time the author mentions "Mohammed" or laments the permanence of the mosque at the Dome on the Rock, lest there be "an international Islamic jihad (holy war)." He also misunderstands many themes and elements of the Qur'an, which is problematic when you're trying to compare the Qur'an to the Torah.