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A Short History of the Jewish People From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood

ISBN: 9780195139419 | 0195139410
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/27/2000

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Where did the Jews come from? How did they retain their strong sense of community through centuries of dispersion? How have the Jews of the present, with their proud ethnic identity and thriving national home, emerged out of the downtrodden Jews of the past? Such questions arise naturally in the minds of anyone contemplating the long history of Jewish people. In one concise, authoritative volume, A Short History of the Jewish People provides insights and answers. This sweeping and highly informative work presents the major geographical, cultura... MORE
Acknowledgementsvii
Introductionviii
Israelite Origins and Kingdom (Before 1220 B.C.E. to 587 B.C.E.)
1(24)
Judea and the Origins of the Diaspor... MORE
25(26)
Roman Palestine and Sassanid Babylonia (70 C.E. to 632)
51(20)
The Jews in the Islamic World: From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Middle Ages (632 to 1500)
71(26)
The Jews of Medieval Christian Europe (Ninth century to 1500)
97(26)
The Jews in the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East (1453 to 1948)
123(26)
The Jews of Western Europe (1500 to 1900)
149(24)
The Jews of Eastern Europe and the United States (1770 to 1940)
173(26)
The Holocaust
199(18)
Zionism and the Origins of the State of Israel
217(18)
The Jewish People after 1948
235(26)
Afterword: The Outlook for the Jews261(3)
Bibliography264(6)
Index270

Raymond P. Scheindlin teaches at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City. His other books include Wine, Women, and Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life (OUP 1999) and The Gazelle: Medieval Hebrew Poems on God, Israel, and the Soul (OUP 1999).


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