Table of Contents
Chapter 1: From Ur to CanaanA Wandering People 1Chapter 2: From Exile Back HomePriests and Prophets 19Chapter 3: From Hebrew into GreekDisdain and Admiration 31Chapter 4: From Modiin to JerusalemA Jewish State Stands and Falls 39Chapter 5: From Jerusalem to YavnehThe Diaspora Legitimates Itself 55
Chapter 6: From Medina to BaghdadUnder Islamic Rule 69Chapter 7: From Sura to CordobaSepharadJewish Culture on the Iberian Peninsula 83Chapter 8: From Lucca to MainzAshkenazThe Roots of Central European Jewry 95Chapter 9: From Lisbon to VeniceExpulsions and Their Aftermath 117Chapter 10: From Khaybar to RomeMessianic and Mystical Movements 137
Chapter 11: From West to EastA New Center in Poland 151Chapter 12: From Dessau to BerlinRural Jews, Court Jews, and Enlightenment Philosophers 167Chapter 13: From the Ghetto to Civil SocietyPolitical Emancipation and Religious Reform 189Chapter 14: From Posen to New OrleansStarting Over in America 209Chapter 15: From the Shtetl to the Lower East SideEast European Jewish Dreams and American Realities 223
Chapter 16: From Budapest to Tel AvivAn "Old New Land" in Zion 255Chapter 17: From T touan to TeheranThe Europeanization of Jews in the Islamic World 273Chapter 18: From Czernowitz to Cernaut,iPolitical Crisis and CulturalFlorescence between the Wars 287Chapter 19: From Everywhere to AuschwitzAnnihilation 319Chapter 20: From Julius Streicher's Farm to the KibbutzThe Jewish World after the Holocaust 349
Appendix: Jewish History in Numbers 389Further Reading 393Picture Credits 401Index of Names 405Index of Place Names 415