| Description |
xiv, 421 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [393]-400) and indexes. |
| Contents |
From Ur to Canaan : a wandering people -- From exile back home : priests and prophets -- From Hebrew into Greek : disdain and admiration -- From Modiin to Jerusalem : a Jewish state stands and falls -- From Jerusalem to Yavneh : the Diaspora legitimates itself -- From Medina to Baghdad : under Islamic rule -- From Sura to Cordoba : Sepharad : Jewish culture on the Iberian peninsula -- From Lucca to Mainz : Ashkenaz : the roots of Central European Jewry -- From Lisbon to Venice : expulsions and their aftermath -- From Khaybar to Rome : messianic and mystical movements -- From West to East : a new center in Poland -- From Dessau to Berlin : rural Jews, court Jews, and Enlightenment philosophers -- From the ghetto to civil society : political emancipation and religious reform -- From Posen to New Orleans : starting over in America -- From the shtetl to the Lower East Side : East European Jewish dreams and American realities -- From Budapest to Tev Aviv : an "old new land" in Zion -- From Tétouan to Teheran : the Europeanization of Jews in the Islamic world -- From Czernowitz to Cernăuți : political crisis and cultural florescence between the Wars -- From everywhere to Auschwitz : annihilation -- From Julius Streicher's farm to the kibbutz : the Jewish world after the Holocaust -- Appendix. Jewish history in numbers. |
| Language |
Translation of: Kleine jüdische Geschichte. |
| Subject |
Jews -- History.
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| Added Title |
Kleine jüdische Geschichte. English
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| ISBN |
9780691143514 hardcover alkaline paper $29.95 |
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069114351X hardcover alkaline paper |
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