Turning points in Jewish history / Marc J. Rosenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenstein, Marc, 1946- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--History.

Jews.

History.

Genre:

History.

Nonfiction.

Physical Description:

xxi, 453 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press ; Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society, [2018]

Summary:

"Examining the entire span of Jewish history through the lens of thirty pivotal moments in the Jewish people's experience from biblical times through the present, Turning Points in Jewish History provides "the big picture": both a broad and a deep understanding of the Jewish historical experience"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Imagining the beginning: the call to Abraham, ~1500 BCE?

Liberation from slavery: the exodus from Egypt, ~1200 BCE?

The covenant: revelation a Sinai, ~1200 BCE?

Entering the Promised Land: crossing the Jordan, ~1200 BCE?

Establishing a state: "Give us a king!" ~1000 BCE

the fall of Israel: exile of the ten tribes, 722 BCE

The Babylonian exile: the destruction of the first temple, 586 BCE

The second temple: return to Zion, 538 BCE

Confronting the challenge of Hellenism: the Hasmonean revolt, 167 BCE

Roman rule: the great revolt and destruction of the second temple, 70 CE

Finding a messianic equilibrium: the Bar Kokhba revolt, 132-135 CE

The oral law becomes literature: the Mishnah, ~200 CE

The Golden Age of Iberian Jewry: Maimonides, 900-1200 CE

The rise of Eastern European Jewry: the Crusades, 1100-1300 CE

Kabbalah enters the mainstream: Nahmanides, ~1300 CE

The end of Iberian Jewry: conversion, expulsion, diaspora, 1300-1600 CE

The rise and collapse of Polish Jewry: the Cossack revolt, 1648 CE

The rise of Hasidism: the Baal Shem Tov and his disciples, ~1750 CE

The challenge of emancipation: the Napoleonic Sanhedrin, ~1780-1880 CE

Reform and reaction: the Hamburg temple, 1818 CE

The rise of North American Jewry: the great migration, 1881-1924 CE

Jewish nationalism: Theodor Herzl, 1896 CE

The secular Zionist movement: Ahad Ha'am, ~1900 CE

Zionist settlement of the land of Israel: first and second Aliyot, 1882-1914 CE

The destruction of European Jewry: the Holocaust, 1933-45 CE

The Jewish state: proclaiming and defending independence, 1948 CE

East meets West: the mass Aliyah from North Africa and the Mideast, 1949-64 CE

Benefits and costs of military power: the Six-Day War, 1967 CE

The feminist revolution: the ordination of women, 1972 CE

The fall of the Iron Curtain: the liberation of Soviet Jewry, 1989 CE

Afterword.

Notes:

"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."--title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780827612631

082761263X

OCLC:

1008771472