A History of the Jews in the Modern World
By Howard M. Sachar
By Howard M. Sachar
By Howard M. Sachar
By Howard M. Sachar
Category: World History | Religion
Category: World History | Religion
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$24.00
Sep 12, 2006 | ISBN 9781400030972
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Dec 18, 2007 | ISBN 9780307424365
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Praise
“A rich and balanced account. . . . There is no other book that attempts, as this one does, to recount the history of the Jews in modern times in all its geographical variation and breathtaking disparity.” –Washington Post Book World
“Magisterial . . . Sachar situates Jews on a global stage. . . . [He] relates an immensely complex story with precision and learning.” –New York Times Book Review
“[Sachar’s book features] an erudition that is confidently and casually displayed, a range of topics covered with crisp lucidity, and sentences whose cadences effortlessly sweep the reader along.” –The Boston Globe
“Like all of Sachar’s books, this too is comprehensive, illuminating, and readable. He weaves Jewish history through the intricacies of modern developments with a magisterial sweep.” –Shlomo Avineri, Professor of Political Science Emeritus, The Hebrew University
“A magnum opus….comprehensive, analytical, and written in a felicitous style….The book is a must. Both the lay and specialist reader will be richly rewarded.” –Isaiah Friedman, Professor of Modern History Emeritus, Ben-Gurion University
“This learned, sweeping, panoramic view of the Jewish experience in modernity will long remain…the standard history of this period.” –Alfred Gottschalk, President Emeritus, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
“In this expansive and magisterial history of the Jews in the modern world…this distinguished historian and experienced teacher has created a vibrant, highly readable text for students and general readers alike.” –Jehuda Reinharz, President, Brandeis University
“This is the work of a lifetime, a magisterial study….a book that all future histories of modern Jewry will be judged by.” –Jonathan Sarna, Chairman, School of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, Brandeis University
Table Of Contents
Foreword
I The Jew as Non-European
II A Glimmering of Dawn in the West
III An Ambivalent Emancipation in the West
IV Incarceration: The Jews of Tsarist Russia
V The Triumph of Emancipation in the West
VI Jews in an Emancipated Economy
VII The Impact of Western Culture on Jewish Life
VIII A Sephardic-Oriental Diaspora
IX The Rise of Jewish Life in America
X False Dawn in the East: Alexander II and the Era of “Enlightenment”
XI Russian Twilight: The Era of Pogroms and May Laws
XII A Migration of East European Jewry: 1881–1914
XIII The Onset of Modern Antisemitism
XIV The Mutation of Racism
XV The Rise of Zionism
XVI The Evolution of Jewish Radicalism:Tsarist Russia
XVII Socialist “Internationalism” in Western Europe: The Trauma of World War I
XVIII The Triumph of Bolshevism
XIX The Balfour Declaration and the Jewish National Home
XX The Legacy of Progressivism: Immigrant Jewry in the United States
XXI Successor States and Minority Guarantees: 1919–1939
XXII The Triumph of East European Fascism
XXIII A Final Symbiosis of Jewish and Western Culture
XXIV A Climactic Onslaught of Postwar Antisemitism
XXV The Triumph of Nazism
XXVI The Quest for Sanctuary: 1933–1939
XXVII The Holocaust of European Jewry
XXVIII The Final Solution and the Struggle for Jewish Survival
XXIX The Birth of Israel
XXX Eastern Jewry in the Postwar: A Failed Convalescence
XXXI A Precarious Revival in Western Europe
XXXII The Jews of British Commonwealth
XXXIII A Latin Israel in the Southern Hemisphere
XXXIV The Efflorescence of American-Jewish Community
XXXV The Jewish State and World Jewry
XXXVI Israel, the United States, and the Struggle for Soviet Jewry
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
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