Jewish history : the big picture
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Jewish history : the big picture
Behrman House, c2008
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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
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Description
Adult readers will appreciate this epic story of the Jewish people rendered as a concise, accessible, and engaging narrative.
This lively and accessible volume presents the full range of Jewish history, from biblical to contemporary times. Adapted from the two-volume award-winning work, The History of the Jewish People by Professors Jonathan Sarna and Jonathan Krasner, this single volume treats readers to a fast-paced account of Jewish history that is grounded in scholarship and brimming with information on topics as diverse as the development of Christianity beyond its Jewish roots into a new religion and the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language. The text is filled with colorful anecdotal detail about Jewish communities throughout history and around the world, such as how Passover was celebrated on the Civil War battlefield and the origins of Beta Israel, the Ethiopian-Jewish community. The broad array of graphics—16 maps, 12 charts, 27 timelines, and more than 100 photographs—is sure to engage readers and enrich their appreciation and understanding of Jewish history.
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