The Jews : a history /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Efron, John M. (Author), Weitzman, Steven, 1965- (Author), Lehmann, Matthias B., 1970- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2019]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Table of 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.