History of the Jews in Modern Times

Name: History of the Jews in Modern Times
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ISBN: 9780192892591

ISBN-10: 0192892592

ISBN-13: 9780192892591

Edition: 2001

Authors: Lloyd P. Gartner

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Lloyd Gartner presents, in chronologically-arranged chapters, the story of the changing fortunes of the Jewish communities of the Old World (in Europe and the Middle East and beyond) and their gradual expansion into the New World of the Americas. The book starts in 1650, when there were no more than one and a quarter million Jews in the world (less than a sixth of the number at the start of the Christian era). Gartner leads us through the traditions, religious laws, communities and their interactions with their neighbours, through the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and into Emancipation, the dark shadows of anti-Semitism, the impact of World War II, bringing us up to the twentieth…

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List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/8/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English




The Heritage of Medieval Judaism



Glimmerings of a New Age



A Rift Opening, 1720-1780



Era of Revolution



Emancipation and its Fruits: Western Europe, 1815-1870



Oppression, Expansion, and Reforms: The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1815-1881



Outposts



Age of Migration and Ideologies



From War to War, 1914-1939



Havens and National Home



Catastrophe, Recovery, and Triumph



A New Jewish World, 1950-1980


Index