The way Jews lived : five hundred years of printed words and images / Constance Harris ; foreword by Shalom Sabar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Constance.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish art.

Judaism and art.

Jews--History.

Jews.

History.

Judaism--History.

Judaism.

Physical Description:

vii, 469 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, 2009.

Summary:

"The author presents through pictures and text a social history of Jewish life and art in the last 500 years. Each chapter relates the brief history of a period, devoting particular attention to events concerning Jewish life"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Jewish art : in the beginning

The fifteenth century : printmaking and printing begin

The sixteenth century : let there be books

The seventeenth century: the old world and the new

The eighteenth century : enlightenment, emancipation

England in the nineteenth century : industry and the politics of equity

France in the nineteenth century : Napoleon and the rise of Zionism

Central Europe and Russia in the nineteenth century : modern

Anti-semitism

America in the nineteenth century : immigration and liberation

England in the twentieth century: working class to upper class

France in the twentieth century: grandeur and loss

Germany and austria in the twentieth century : disaster and renewal

Russia and eastern europe in the twentieth century : radical

Theories, mass migrations

America in the twentieth century : from the immigrant experience

To modernity

Israel in the twentieth century : Erets Yisrael, hope deferred.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-461) and index.

ISBN:

9780786434404

0786434406

OCLC:

182656612