Jews A History

Name: Jews A History
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ISBN: 9780131786875

ISBN-10: 0131786873

ISBN-13: 9780131786875

Edition: 2008

Authors: Elisheva Carlebach, John Efron, Steven Weitzman, Joshua Holo, Matthias Lehmann

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"New research has conspired to unsettle many established ideas about the Jewish past, challenging how historians have thought about and described it, and sometimes making it appear less accessible than it was thought to be in earlier generations. While these recent developments would appear to make a history of the Jewish people more difficult, the authors of The Jews: A History believe it has deepened and broadened our understanding. Though the reader will find many familiar names in The Jews, they will also find a broader spectrum of people: mothers, children, workers, students, artists, and radicals whose perspectives greatly expand the story of Jewish life from ancient times to the…

Book details

List price: $87.73
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

Elisheva Carlebach is Salo W. Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society at Columbia University.

Steven Weitzman is Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University.



Introduction



Ancient Israel and other Ancestors



Becoming the People of the Book



Jews and Greeks, Jews in Greek



Between Caesar and God



Rabbinic Revelations



Under the Crescent



Under the Cross



A Jewish Renaissance



New Worlds, East and West



The State of the Jews, Jews and the State



Modern Transformations



The Politics of Being Jewish



A World Upended



The Holocaust



Difficult Freedoms


Glossary


Indices