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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450458603321

Autore

Gartner Lloyd P. <1927->

Titolo

History of the Jews in modern times [[electronic resource] /] / Lloyd P. Gartner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

1423767632

1-280-44464-9

1-4237-6763-2

0-19-158797-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (481 p.)

Disciplina

909/.0492408

Soggetti

Jews - History - 1789-1945

Jews - History - 1945-

Judaism - History - Modern period, 1750-

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Glossary; 1 The Heritage of Medieval Judaism; 2 Glimmerings of a New Age; 3 A Rift Opening, 1720-1780; 4 Era of Revolution; 5 Emancipation in Western Europe, 1815-1870; 6 Travail in Eastern Europe, 1815-1881; 7 Outposts; 8 Age of Migration and Ideologies; 9 From War to War, 1914-1939; 10 Havens and National Home; 11 Catastrophe, Recovery, and Triumph; 12 A New Jewish World, 1950-1980; Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Lloyd Gartner presents, in chronologically-arranged chapters, the story of the changing fortunes of the Jewish communities of the Old World (in Europe and the Middle East and beyond) and their gradual expansion into the New World of the Americas. The book starts in 1650, when there were no more than one and a quarter million Jews in the world (less than a sixth of the number at the start of the Christian era). Gartner leads us through the traditions, religious laws, communities and their interactions with their neighbours, through the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and into Emancipation