History of the Jews in Modern Times.

Summary: 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.

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ISBN: 0191587974
ISBN: 9780191587979
Physical Description: 1 online resource (481 pages)
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Publisher: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2000.

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General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:april.17
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
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