Spanning millennia, this history of the Jewish people explores how a small group who started as desert nomads overcame countless obstacles to survive to the present day. From slavery to the loss of their temple; from exile to anti-Semitism; from forced conversions to near-annihilation in the Holocaust, how did the Jews make it when so many other communities vanished? The answers are surprising. Martha Teichner of "CBS Sunday Morning" hosts.

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