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A short history of the Jews /

A concise narrative history that brings the story of the Jewish people marvelously to life This is a sweeping and powerful narrative history of the Jewish people from biblical times to today. Based on the latest scholarship and richly illustrated, it is the most authoritative and accessible chronicl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brenner, Michael, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Foreword
  • 1: From Ur to Canaan: a wandering people
  • 2: From exile back home: priests and prophets
  • 3: From Hebrew into Greek: disdain and admiration
  • 4: From Modiin to Jerusalem: a Jewish state stands and falls
  • 5: From Jerusalem to Yavneh: the Diaspora legitimates itself
  • 6: From Medina to Baghdad: under Islamic rule
  • 7: From Sura to Cordoba: Sepharad-Jewish culture on the Iberian peninsula
  • 8: From Lucca to Mainz: Ashkenaz-the roots of Central European Jewry
  • 9: From Lisbon to Venice: expulsions and their aftermath
  • 10: From Khaybar to Rome: messianic and mystical movements
  • 11: From West to East: a new center in Poland
  • 12: From Dessau to Berlin: rural Jews, court Jews, and Enlightenment philosophers
  • 13: From the ghetto to civil society: political emancipation and religious reform
  • 14: From Posen to New Orleans: starting over in America
  • 15: From the shtetl to the Lower East Side: East European Jewish dreams and American realities
  • 16: From Budapest to Tev Aviv: an "old new land" in Zion
  • 17: From Tétouan to Teheran: the Europeanization of Jews in the Islamic world
  • 18: From Czernowitz to Cernauti: political crisis and cultural florescence between the Wars
  • 19: From everywhere to Auschwitz: annihilation
  • 20: From Julius Streicher's farm to the kibbutz: the Jewish world after the Holocaust
  • Appendix: Jewish history in numbers
  • Further reading
  • Picture credits
  • Index of names
  • Index of place names.