Modin

You may - or may not - have heard of the Maccabees, the Jewish patriots who fought a successful campaign against the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who was persecuting the Jews. However unless you are a scholar, you probably will not know that the revolt started at a small village called Modin. Unless you are a really keen scholar, you won't know that just outside that village there are graves from the Maccabee period.

Today Modin is a hideous new town infested by striking architecture and the Maccabee graves are lonely pits dug in the rock and half-filled with wind-blown rubbish. Come Hanukkah, the locals rush to fill a ghastly fake Maccabee village - which does not feature in this film - but I think old Judas Maccabeus would be happier if they tidied up his graveyard.

The "More info" button takes you to Amazon where you can purchase the book of Maccabees. Another book you might be interested in is Josephus' "Wars of the Jews", but if you're going to buy that, you might as well get his complete works. It's fairly heavy going, but definitely worthwhile if you're interested in history.