The Cambridge history of Judaism

Bibliographic Information

The Cambridge history of Judaism

edited by Mitchell B. Hart and Tony Michels

Cambridge University Press, 2019

  • v. 8 : pbk.

Other Title

History of Judaism

Judaism

Search this Book/Journal
Note

V. 8, volume editors, Mitchell B. Hart, Tony Michels

"First paperback edition 2019"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism covers the period from roughly 1815-2000. Exploring the breadth and depth of Jewish societies and their manifold engagements with aspects of the modern world, it offers overviews of modern Jewish history, as well as more focused essays on political, social, economic, intellectual and cultural developments. The first part presents a series of interlocking surveys that address the history of diverse areas of Jewish settlement. The second part is organized around the emancipation. Here, chapter themes are grouped around the challenges posed by and to this elemental feature of Jewish life in the modern period. The third part adopts a thematic approach organized around the category 'culture', with the goal of casting a wide net in terms of perspectives, concepts and topics. The final part then focuses on the twentieth century, offering readers a sense of the dynamic nature of Judaism and Jewish identities and affiliations.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction Mitchell B. Hart and Tony Michels
  • Part I. History and Geography: 1. Central and Western Europe Robin Judd
  • 2. Russian and Soviet Jewry Olga Litvak
  • 3. Poland Scott Ury
  • 4. The Balkans and South-Eastern Europe Matthias B. Lehmann
  • 5. Great Britain, the Commonwealth and Anglophone Jewry Adam Mendelsohn
  • 6. The United States Hasia Diner
  • 7. The Hispanic world/Latin America Jeffrey Lesser and Raanan Rein
  • 8. Colonial and post-Colonial Jewries: the Middle East, Africa and Central/Southern Asia Yaron Tzur
  • 9. Israel Derek Penslar
  • Part II. Emancipation: Challenges and Consequences: 10. Jews and the modern state Pierre Birnbaum
  • 11. Assimilation and assimilationism Todd M. Endelman
  • 12. Liberal Judaisms Claire E. Sufrin
  • 13. The new Jewish politics David Engel
  • 14. Jews and the Left Jack Jacobs
  • 15. Jews and commerce Jonathan Karp
  • 16. Jews and social class Eli Lederhendler
  • 17. Education and the politics of Jewish integration Gary B. Cohen
  • 18. Philanthropy, diplomacy and Jewish internationalism Jonathan Dekel-Chen
  • 19. Jews and modern European imperialism Ethan B. Katz, Lisa Moses Leff and Maud S. Mandel
  • 20. Antisemitism and the Jewish question Jonathan Judaken
  • 21. Generation, degeneration, regeneration: health, disease and the Jewish body Todd Samuel Presner
  • 22. Zionism and its critics Eran Kaplan
  • 23. The Holocaust and its aftermath Samuel Kassow
  • Part III. Jewish Cultures, National and Transnational: 24. Jewish culture: what is it? Zohar Shavit and Yaakov Shavit
  • 25. Sephardic and Mizrachi literature Nancy E. Berg
  • 26. Anglophone literature Axel Stahler
  • 27. Hebrew literature Shachar Pinsker
  • 28. Yiddish Mikhail Krutikov
  • 29. Jewish studies: history, memory, scholarship David N. Myers
  • 30. Jews and material culture Leora Auslander
  • 31. Jews and popular culture in the twentieth century: North America Andrea Most
  • 32. Jews and popular culture in the twentieth century: Israel and the Middle East Amy Horowitz and Galeet Dardashti
  • Part IV. Jews in the Modern World: 33. The dynamics of modernity: shifts in demography and geography Tobias Brinkmann
  • 34. In search of authenticity: issues of identity and belonging in the twentieth century Jonathan Boyarin
  • 35. Gender and the re-making of modern Jewry Naomi Seidman
  • 36. Jews and science Ulrich Charpa
  • 37. Mysticism and messianism Jody Myers
  • 38. Orthodoxy and ultra-Orthodoxy as forces in modern Jewish life Jess Olson
  • 39. Jews and Christianity Susannah Heschel
  • 40. Jews and Islam Ivan Kalmar
  • Index.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details
Page Top