The Man Who Collected all the Legends of the Jews (Thread) 🧵 The Jews, in the words of the British-Jewish historian Lewis Namier, “suffered from too much history and not enough geography”. Namier made this famous observation before the foundation of the modern state of Israel in 1948.

This change—from a scattered diaspora to a people with a state—was seismic.

There are offers you cannot refuse, yet - there were few who succeeded.

The story of Marlon Brando and the making of The Godfather. The sixties turned the actor who was considered the biggest rising star in the Hollywood sky, Marlon Brando, into a box office failure. Film critics and old fans that in the previous decade crowned Brando now marked the end of his career.