John Efron, Steven Weitzman, Matthias Lehmann

The Jews (eBook, PDF)

A History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. Updated throughout and supported by case study boxes, online references, further reading, maps and illustrations, it provides students with the perfect grounding in Jewish history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351017862
• Artikelnr.: 54676142

Autorenporträt

John Efron is the Koret Professor of Jewish History at the University of California at Berkeley. His specialty is the cultural and social history of German Jewry. His most recent book is German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic (Princeton University Press, 2016).

Matthias Lehmann is Professor of History and Teller Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Irvine. He has written about the history of Sephardic Jews in the Ottoman Empire and around the Mediterranean. His most recent book is Emissaries from the Holy Land (Stanford, 2014).

Steven Weitzman directs the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also serves as the Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures. A scholar of ancient Jewish culture and religion, his recent publications include a biography of King Solomon from Yale University Press and The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age (Princeton University Press, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

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