A Concise History of the Jewish PeopleRowman & Littlefield, 2005 - 347 pages This book describes the most important events and people in Jewish history from Abraham to the present day, in a very concise, accessible way. These 'read-bites' include up-to-date essays discussing the impact of 9-11; the Iraq War, Muslim Fundamentalism, and rise of European anti-Semitism on the Jewish People. |
Contents
Abraham and the Patriarchs | 1 |
Moses | 4 |
The Ten Commandments and the Revelation at Sinai | 7 |
The Hebrew Bible | 10 |
Archaeology and the Bible | 13 |
Saul and the Establishment of the Kingdom | 17 |
King David | 20 |
Solomon and the First Temple | 24 |
The Jews of Venice and the First Ghetto | 167 |
Kabbalists at Safed | 170 |
Joseph Caro and the Shulhan Arukh | 173 |
The Excommunication of Spinoza | 175 |
Jews Arrive in the New World | 178 |
The Chmielnicki Massacres | 181 |
The Shabbetai Zevi Affair | 184 |
The Development of Hasidism | 187 |
The Divided Kingdom | 27 |
Amos and Hosea | 30 |
Isaiah and Hezekiah | 33 |
The Fall of Jerusalem | 37 |
Jeremiah | 40 |
The Babylonian Exile and the Return | 43 |
Ezra and Nehemiah | 46 |
Second Temple Period 538 BCE70 CE | 48 |
Hellenism | 49 |
Judah Maccabee | 52 |
The Hasmonean State | 56 |
Herod the Great | 59 |
The Pharisees and Sadducees and Hillel and Shammai | 63 |
The Diaspora during the Roman Empire | 67 |
Jesus | 70 |
Peter Paul and Early Christianity | 74 |
The Dead Sea Scrolls | 78 |
The Jewish War 6670 CE | 82 |
The Destruction of the Temple | 86 |
The Fall of Masada | 90 |
Rabbinic Period 70600 CE | 91 |
Yohanan ben Zakkai and the Sanhedrin at Yavneh | 92 |
Bar Kokhba | 95 |
Rabbi Judah the Prince and the Redaction of the Mishnah | 99 |
Constantine and Christianity | 102 |
The Jews of Babylon | 105 |
The Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds | 108 |
Medieval Period 6001450 | 110 |
Mohammed | 111 |
The Karaites | 114 |
The Jews in the Muslim World before 1400 | 117 |
The Jews of Italy | 120 |
The Jews of Spain | 124 |
A 12thCentury Zionist Judah HaLevi | 128 |
The Legacy of Maimonides | 131 |
Nahmanides and the 1263 Disputation | 134 |
The Bible of the Jewish Mystics The Zohar | 137 |
The Jews of England Massacre and Expulsion | 139 |
Rashi | 142 |
The Inquisition and Expulsion from Spain | 145 |
The Marranos | 148 |
The Jews of Medieval Germany | 152 |
Transition to Modern Times 14501750 | 154 |
Hebrew Printing | 155 |
Martin Luther and the Jews | 158 |
The Jews of Amsterdam | 161 |
Issac Abrabanel | 164 |
Early Modern Times 17501917 | 188 |
Moses Mendelssohn and the Jewish Enlightenment | 189 |
Emancipation | 193 |
Religious Response to Modern Challenges | 196 |
The Pale of Settlement | 200 |
The House of Rothschild | 203 |
Sir Moses Montefiore and 19thCentury Jewish History | 207 |
Early Zionist Voices | 211 |
Modern Antisemitism | 215 |
The Pogroms of 1881 | 218 |
The Beginnings of Aliyah | 222 |
The Dreyfus Affair | 226 |
Theodor Herzl The Jewish State and the First Zionist Congress | 229 |
The Emergence of American Conservative Judaism | 233 |
The Kishinev Pogroms | 236 |
The Uganda Controversy | 240 |
The Beilis BloodLibel Case | 244 |
Eliezer BenYehuda and the Emergence of Modern Hebrew | 248 |
Tel Aviv and Deganyah A New City and a New Type of Community | 252 |
The Balfour Declaration | 256 |
The Modern Era 1918 to Present | 259 |
The British Mandate over Palestine The White Paper Regime | 260 |
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion | 265 |
The Open Door Closes | 269 |
Birobidzhan The Soviet Unions Jewish Autonomous Region | 272 |
Mordecai Kaplan and Reconstructionist Judaism | 276 |
Kristallnacht The Night of the Broken Glass | 279 |
The Wannsee Conference Genocide Becomes State Policy | 282 |
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | 285 |
The Exodus 1947 and Illegal Aliyah | 288 |
The UN Partition Resolution | 291 |
The Birth of the State of Israel | 294 |
Jerusalem and Israels War of Independence | 297 |
Operation Magic Carpet and Operation Ezra and Nehemiah | 301 |
German Restitution to Victims of Nazism | 304 |
The Doctors Plot Prelude to Stalins Final Solution? | 307 |
The Sinai Campaign | 311 |
The Eichmann Trial | 314 |
The SixDay War | 317 |
The Yom Kippur War | 320 |
Peace with Egypt | 323 |
The Ordination of Female Rabbis | 326 |
The Falashas Arrive in Israel | 329 |
The Jewish People Enter the 21st Century | 332 |
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Index | 341 |
Other editions - View all
A Concise History of the Jewish People Naomi E. Pasachoff,Robert J. Littman No preview available - 2005 |
A Concise History of the Jewish People Naomi E. Pasachoff,Robert J. Littman No preview available - 2005 |
Common terms and phrases
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