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Abstract All" are mortal but for the Jew ; " remarked the American author Mark Twain , " all other forces pass , but he remains . What is the secret of his , immortality ? " For many orthodox Jews this is a rhetorical question , evidence of the bond between the one God and His Chosen People removing Jews from the bonds of time and place to metaphysical eternity . It appears , however , that the people never attained certainty in absolute faith . They had been living since time immemorial , but they lived with perpetual doubt . The Jewish people , commented Simon Rawidowicz in 1948 , is the ever - dying people : " The world has many images of Israel , but Israel has only one image of itself : that of an expiring people , forever on "… the verge of ceasing to be The existential uncertainty of the Jewish people in the age of Zionism is the subject of this book , which sets out to examine national existence on" the edge of the abyss . " It does not predict whether the state of Israel will ...  אל הספר