Jewish history : the big picture

Author(s)

• Gevirtz, Gila
• Sarna, Jonathan D.
• Krasner, Jonathan B.

Bibliographic Information

Jewish history : the big picture

by Gila Gevirtz ; adapted from The history of the Jewish people by Jonathan D. Sarna and Jonathan B. Krasner

Behrman House, c2008

Note

Includes index

Contents of Works

• The early Israelites
• The age of Hellenism
• Roman domination of Judea
• Rabbinic Judaism
• Judaism and Christianity
• Babylonia
• Sepharad and Ashkenaz
• Medieval Europe
• The Sephardic diaspora
• The Polish Kehillah and German enlightenment
• Revolution and emancipation
• Judaism and the modern world
• The rise of antisemitism
• United States Jewry, 1820-1880
• Eastern European Jewry, 1881-1914
• The great migration
• Jewish nationalism and Zionism
• World War I
• At home in the United States 1920-1940
• The British mandate
• Europe between the Wars
• The Holocaust
• The birth of the modern state of Israel
• " 'Making it' in America," 1945-1965
• The diaspora consolidates
• Israel in our time
• American Jewry today

Details

• NCID: BA90640579
• ISBN:
  • 9780874418385
• LCCN: 2007049282
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Springfield, NJ
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 280 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DS118
  • DC22 : 909/.04924
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Jews -- History