History of the JewsNational Bestseller "A tour de force. . . . A remarkable achievement." —New York Times Book Review "A marvelous book. . . . This is history: richly textured, provocative and wise." —Plain Dealer From acclaimed historian Paul Johnson, author of Modern Times and A History of American People, this brilliant 4000 year survey covers not only Jewish history but the impact of Jewish genius and imagination on the world. |
Contents
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democratic theocracy 40 The conqueror Joshua and | 45 |
Samuel and state prophecy 51 Saul and the great constitutional | 66 |
Jeremiah the first Jew | 79 |
Suffering Servant or Rebellious Elder? | 125 |
Paul and the theft ofJewish universalism 130 AntiSemitism | 143 |
Jabneh and rabbinical Judaism 149 Tannaim amoraim Mishnah | 160 |
Benjamin of Tudelas world 169 Jews and the creation of the Dark | 208 |
Krochmal Graetz and the writing of Jewish history 329 Geiger | 346 |
The post1881 exodus from Russia and its effects | 365 |
Mordecai Noah Reform and GermanJewish America 367 Emma | 391 |
and Weizmann 399 The religious opposition to Zionism 402 | 405 |
The Jews and modernist culture 408 Mahler Schonberg | 420 |
Gurion and socialist Zionism 441 Interwar British policy | 443 |
Luxemburg Trotsky and NonJewish Jews 448 The case of Isaac | 459 |
Lippmann and Jewish invisibility 468 Jews in postwar Germany | 474 |
the disputations | 221 |
Ibn Verga and the Jewish hatelegacy 233 The first ghetto in Venice | 235 |
Making the Thirty Years War pay 253 The rise and fall of | 250 |
court Jew 255 The 1648 catastrophe and its effects 258 Lurianic | 267 |
Jewish return to England 275 Jews in New York 278 American | 281 |
the Baal Shem Tov and the hasidim 294 | 310 |
The Damascus case 322 Disraeli and Jewish Christianity 323 Zunz | 328 |
Jews media violence and Weimar culture 475 The case of Walter | 499 |
The role of the British and Americans 503 Jewish acquiescence and resistance 506 The survival of antiSemitism 512 Punishingthe criminals 513 Com... | 514 |
The War of Israels Independence 527 Deir Yassin and | 536 |
Defining a Jew 538 The ingathering 539 Hebrew as a modern | 551 |
Stalinist antiSemitism 569 South Africa and the origins of Zionist | 581 |
INDEX | 631 |
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