History of the Jews in Modern Times / Edition 1

by Lloyd P. P. Gartner, Lloyd P. Gartner

Overview

Lloyd Gartner provides a vivid description of the changing fortunes of the Jewish communities of the Old World—Europe, the Middle East, and beyond—and their gradual expansion into the New World of the Americas. The book begins in 1650, when the Jewish population had fallen to roughly 1.25 million, less than one-sixth of its peak at the start of the Christian era. Gartner leads us through the traditions, religious laws, communities, and their interactions with their neighbors, through the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and into Emancipation, the dark shadows of anti-Semitism, and the Second World War, bringing us up to the present with Zionism and the founding of Israel. Eminently readable and impeccably researched, the book is a superb introduction to one of the central threads of modern history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192892591
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/08/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	482
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Lloyd Gartner is Professor of European Jewish History Emeritus at the University of Tel-Aviv.

Table of Contents

1. The Heritage of Medieval Judaism2. Glimmerings of a New Age3. A Rift Opening, 1720-17804. Era of Revolution5. Emancipation and its Fruits: Western Europe, 1815-18706. Oppression, Expansion, and Reforms: The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1815-18817. Outposts8. Age of Migration and Ideologies9. From War to War, 1914-193910. Havens and National Home11. Catastrophe, Recovery, and Triumph12. A New Jewish World, 1950-1980Index