History of the JewsNational Bestseller "A tour de force. . . . A remarkable achievement." —New York Times Book Review "A marvelous book. . . . This is history: richly textured, provocative and wise." —Plain Dealer From acclaimed historian Paul Johnson, author of Modern Times and A History of American People, this brilliant 4000 year survey covers not only Jewish history but the impact of Jewish genius and imagination on the world. |
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... Judah Halevi and Nahmanides 197. The Zohar 198. Jews and medicine 199. The social structure of medieval Jewries 200. Jewish religious infrastructure 202. Jews in Latin Christendom 205. Anti-Jewish demonology 206. The crusader pogroms ...
... Judah Halevi and Nahmanides 197. The Zohar 198. Jews and medicine 199. The social structure of medieval Jewries 200. Jewish religious infrastructure 202. Jews in Latin Christendom 205. Anti-Jewish demonology 206. The crusader pogroms ...
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... Judah (II Samuel 2:1—4), then of all Israel (II Samuel 5:1—3). When Jerusalem fell, the Jews were expelled and it was settled by Edom. It was conquered by Greece, then by Rome, converted, plundered by the Zealots, burned by the Romans ...
... Judah (II Samuel 2:1—4), then of all Israel (II Samuel 5:1—3). When Jerusalem fell, the Jews were expelled and it was settled by Edom. It was conquered by Greece, then by Rome, converted, plundered by the Zealots, burned by the Romans ...
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... Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Ephraim and Manasseh, were all descended from Jacob and his sons, according to Biblical tradition.54 But in the Song of Deborah, which as we have noted is very ancient, only ...
... Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Ephraim and Manasseh, were all descended from Jacob and his sons, according to Biblical tradition.54 But in the Song of Deborah, which as we have noted is very ancient, only ...
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... Judah', 'The Book of the Acts of Solomon' and many other works. But those that survive, especially the two books of Samuel and the two books of Kings, are history on the grand scale, among the greatest works of all antiquity. They ...
... Judah', 'The Book of the Acts of Solomon' and many other works. But those that survive, especially the two books of Samuel and the two books of Kings, are history on the grand scale, among the greatest works of all antiquity. They ...
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... Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah unto this day.' Jerusalem controlled the main north—south route in the interior; more, it was the natural junction between north and south. The failure ...
... Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah unto this day.' Jerusalem controlled the main north—south route in the interior; more, it was the natural junction between north and south. The failure ...
Contents
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Jeremiah the first Jew | 79 |
Suffering Servant or Rebellious Elder? | 125 |
Paul and the theft ofJewish universalism 130 AntiSemitism | 143 |
Jabneh and rabbinical Judaism 149 Tannaim amoraim Mishnah | 160 |
Benjamin of Tudelas world 169 Jews and the creation of the Dark | 208 |
Krochmal Graetz and the writing of Jewish history 329 Geiger | 346 |
The post1881 exodus from Russia and its effects | 365 |
Mordecai Noah Reform and GermanJewish America 367 Emma | 391 |
and Weizmann 399 The religious opposition to Zionism 402 | 405 |
The Jews and modernist culture 408 Mahler Schonberg | 420 |
Gurion and socialist Zionism 441 Interwar British policy | 443 |
Luxemburg Trotsky and NonJewish Jews 448 The case of Isaac | 459 |
Lippmann and Jewish invisibility 468 Jews in postwar Germany | 474 |
the disputations | 221 |
Ibn Verga and the Jewish hatelegacy 233 The first ghetto in Venice | 235 |
Making the Thirty Years War pay 253 The rise and fall of | 250 |
court Jew 255 The 1648 catastrophe and its effects 258 Lurianic | 267 |
Jewish return to England 275 Jews in New York 278 American | 281 |
the Baal Shem Tov and the hasidim 294 | 310 |
The Damascus case 322 Disraeli and Jewish Christianity 323 Zunz | 328 |
Jews media violence and Weimar culture 475 The case of Walter | 499 |
The role of the British and Americans 503 Jewish acquiescence and resistance 506 The survival of antiSemitism 512 Punishingthe criminals 513 Com... | 514 |
The War of Israels Independence 527 Deir Yassin and | 536 |
Defining a Jew 538 The ingathering 539 Hebrew as a modern | 551 |
Stalinist antiSemitism 569 South Africa and the origins of Zionist | 581 |
INDEX | 631 |
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