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The Jews : a history / John Efron, Matthias Lehmann, Steven Weitzman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Efron, John M., author.
- Weitzman, Steven, 1965- author.
- Lehmann, Matthias B., 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--History.
- Jews.
- History.
- Judaism--History.
- Judaism.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 571 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Ancient Israel and other ancestors
- Becoming the people of the book
- Jews and Greeks
- Between Caesar and God
- From Temple to Talmud
- Under the crescent
- Under the cross
- A Jewish renaissance
- New worlds, East and West
- The state of the Jews, the Jews and the state
- Modern transformations
- The politics of being Jewish
- A world upended
- The Holocaust
- Into the present
- Timeline of Jewish History.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138303119
- 1138303119
- 9781138298446
- 1138298441
- OCLC:
- 1031425000
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