The Jews: A History is a comprehensive and accessible text that explores the religious, cultural, social, and economic diversity of the Jewish people and their faith.
Placing Jewish history within its wider cultural context, the book covers a broad time span, stretching from ancient Israel to the modern day. It examines Jewish history across a range of settings, including the ancient Near East, the age of Greek and Roman rule, the medieval realms of Christianity and Islam, modern Europe, including the World Wars and the Holocaust, and contemporary America and Israel, covering a variety of topics, such as legal emancipation, acculturation, and religious innovation. The third edition is fully updated to include more case studies and to encompass recent events in Jewish history, as well as religion, social life, economics, culture, and gender.
Supported by case studies, online references, further reading, maps, and illustrations, The Jews: A History provides students with a comprehensive and wide-ranging grounding in Jewish history.
Table of Contents
List of figures List of maps Preface Publishers Acknowledgements Notes on Spelling and Transliteration 1. Ancient Israel and Other Ancestors 2. Becoming the People of the Book 3. Jews and Greeks 4. Between Caesar and God 5. From Temple to Talmud 6. Under the Crescent 7. Under the Cross 8. A Jewish Resistance 9. New Worlds, East and West 10. The State of the Jews, the Jews and the State 11. Modern Transformations 12. The Politics of Being Jewish 13. A World Upended 14. The Holocaust 15. Into the Present Timeline of Jewish History Glossary Index