Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
Part I Ancient Israel 13
1 What Is the Hebrew Bible? 15 Frederick E. Greenspahn
2 How “Historical” Is Ancient Israel? 25 Ehud Ben Zvi
3 Priests and Levites in the Hebrew Bible 35 Stephen A. Geller
4 How Unique Was Israelite Prophecy? 53 Jonathan Stökl
5 Judaism after the Exile: The Later Books of the Bible 70 Daniel C. Snell
6 Translation: The Biblical Legacy to Judaism 83 Leonard Greenspoon
Part II From Ancient Israel to Rabbinic Jewry 99
7 Jews in the Land During the Second Temple Period 101 Steven Werlin
8 Jews in Egypt: The Special Case of the Septuagint 121 Peg Kershenbaum
9 Early Christianity in a Jewish Context 142 Julie Galambush
10 The Babylonian Consolidation of Rabbinic Judaism 156 Shai Secunda
Part III The Medieval World: Jews in Two Cultures 167
11 Jews in Christian Europe: Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages 169 Eva Haverkamp
12 The Jews in the Medieval Arabic-Speaking World 207 Norman (Noam) Stillman
13 Turning Point: The Spanish Expulsion 224 Jane S. Gerber
14 Medieval Jewish Mysticism 244 Hartley Lachter
Part IV The Early Modern Period (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries) 257
15 Judaism and Science in the Age of Discovery 259 Joseph M. Davis
16 A History of Hasidism: Origins and Developments 277 Gadi Sagiv
17 Jews and Judaism in the Early Modern New World: Central and North America 291 Dean Phillip Bell
18 The Jews of the Ottoman Empire 309 Yaron Ayalon
Part V The Modern Period 325
19 How Jews Modernized: The Western Nations 327 Carsten Schapkow
20 The Zionist Movement and the Path to Statehood 343 Brian Amkraut
21 The Jews in the Land of the Russian Tsars 361 Jarrod Tanny
22 The Great Migration: 1881–1924 381 Jessica Cooperman
23 Polish Jewry between the World Wars 393 Sean Martin
24 Organized Movements of American Judaism: From 1880 to World War II 409 Michael R. Cohen
25 Paths of Modernity: Jewish Women in Central Europe 422 Kerry Wallach
26 Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Hostility 441 Richard S. Levy
Part VI Jews and Judaism since the Holocaust and the Birth of Israel 459
27 The Existential Crisis of the Holocaust 461 Peter Haas
28 American Jews and the Jewish State 476 David Bamberger
29 Judaism(s) in Contemporary America 489 Dana Evan Kaplan
30 Traditional Judaism in the Twenty-First Century 514 Mark I. Dunaevsky
31 Contemporary American Jewish Culture 529 Ted Merwin
32 Israeli Culture from 1948 to the Present 548 Keren Rubinstein
33 The Israeli Economy 571 Paul Rivlin
34 Ethnic Diversity in Israel 586 Ari Ariel
Part VII Special Topics 601
35 The World of Jewish Music 603 Marsha Bryan Edelman
36 American Jewry’s Identification with Israel: Problems and Prospects 619 Laurence J. Silberstein
37 The Jewish Holy Days 643 Stanley Schachter
Index 661