A Concise History of the Jewish People

by Naomi Pasachoff, Robert Littman

Overview

This book describes the most important events and people in Jewish history from Abraham to the present day, in a very concise, accessible way. These 'read-bites' include up-to-date essays discussing the impact of 9-11; the Iraq War, Muslim Fundamentalism, and rise of European anti-Semitism on the Jewish People.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780742543669
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/17/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Naomi Pasachoff is a research associate at Williams College. Robert Littman is a professor of classics at the University of Hawai'i.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Part I: Biblical Period, 1600-538 B.C.E.
Chapter 2 Abraham and the Patriarchs
Chapter 3 Moses
Chapter 4 The Ten Commandments and the Revelation at Sinai
Chapter 5 The Hebrew Bible
Chapter 6 Archaeology and the Bible
Chapter 7 Saul and the Establishment of the Kingdom
Chapter 8 King David
Chapter 9 Solomon and the First Temple
Chapter 10 The Divided Kingdom
Chapter 11 Amos and Hosea
Chapter 12 Isaiah and Hezekiah
Chapter 13 The Fall of Jerusalem
Chapter 14 Jeremiah
Chapter 15 The Babylonian Exile and the Return
Chapter 16 Ezra and Nehemiah
Part 17 Part II: Second Temple Period, 538 B.C.E.-70 C.E.
Chapter 18 Hellenism
Chapter 19 Judah Maccabee
Chapter 20 The Hasmoenan State
Chapter 21 Herod the Great
Chapter 22 The Pharisees and Sadducees and Hillel and Shammai
Chapter 23 The Diaspora during the Roman Empire
Chapter 24 Jesus
Chapter 25 Peter, Paul, and Early Christianity
Chapter 26 The Dead Sea Scrolls
Chapter 27 The Jewish War (66-70 C.E.)
Chapter 28 The Destruction of the Temple
Chapter 29 The Fall of Masada
Part 30 Part III: Rabbinic Period, 70-600 C.E.
Chapter 31 Yohanan ben Zakkai and the Sanhedrin at Yavneh
Chapter 32 Bar Kokhba
Chapter 33 Rabbi Judah the Prince and the Redaction of the Mishnah
Chapter 34 Constantine and Christianity
Chapter 35 The Jews of Babylon
Chapter 36 The Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds
Part 37 Part IV: Medieval Period, 600-1450
Chapter 38 Mohammed
Chapter 39 The Karaites
Chapter 40 The Jews in the Muslim World before 1400
Chapter 41 The Jews of Italy
Chapter 42 The Jews of Spain
Chapter 43 A 12th-Century Zionist: Judah HaLevi
Chapter 44 The Legacy of Maimonides
Chapter 45 Nahamides and the 1263 Disputation
Chapter 46 The Bible of the Jewish Mystics: The Zohar
Chapter 47 The Jews of England: Massacre and Expulsion
Chapter 48 Rashi
Chapter 49 The Inquisition and Expulsion from Spain
Chapter 50 The Marranos
Chapter 51 The Jews of Medieval Germany
Part 52 Part V: Transition to Modern Times, 1450-1750
Chapter 53 Hebrew Printing
Chapter 54 Martin Luther and the Jews
Chapter 55 The Jews of Amsterdam
Chapter 56 Isaac Abrabanel
Chapter 57 The Jews of Venice and the First Ghetto
Chapter 58 Kabbalists at Safed
Chapter 59 Joseph Caro and the Shulhan Arukh
Chapter 60 The Excommunication of Spinoza
Chapter 61 Jews Arrive in the New World
Chapter 62 The Chmielnicki Massacres
Chapter 63 The Shabbetai Zevi Affair
Chapter 64 The Development of Hasidism
Part 65 Part VI: Early Modern Times, 1750-1917
Chapter 66 Moses Mendelssohn and the Jewish Enlightenment
Chapter 67 Emancipation
Chapter 68 Religious Responses to Modern Challenges
Chapter 69 The Pale of Settlement
Chapter 70 The House of Rothschild
Chapter 71 Sir Moses Montefiore and 19th-Century Jewish History
Chapter 72 Early Zionist Voices
Chapter 73 Modern Antisemitism
Chapter 74 The Pogroms of 1881
Chapter 75 The Beginnings of Aliyah
Chapter 76 The Dreyfus Affair
Chapter 77 Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State, and the First Zionist Congress
Chapter 78 The Emergence of American Conservative Judaism
Chapter 79 The Kishinev Pogroms
Chapter 80 The Uganda Controversy
Chapter 81 The Beilis Blood-Libel Case
Chapter 82 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and the Emergence of Modern Hebrew
Chapter 83 Tel Aviv and Deganyah: A New City and a New Type of Community
Chapter 84 The Balfour Declaration
Part 85 Part VII: The Modern Era, 1918 to Present
Chapter 86 The British Mandate over Palestine: "The White Paper Regime"
Chapter 87 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Chapter 88 The Open Door Closes
Chapter 89 Birobidzhan: The Soviet Union's "Jewish Autonomous Region"
Chapter 90 Mordecai Kaplan and Reconstructionist Judaism
Chapter 91 Kristallnacht: The Night of the Broken Glass
Chapter 92 The Wannsee Conference: Genocide Becomes State Policy
Chapter 93 The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Chapter 94 The Exodus 1947 and Illegal Aliyah
Chapter 95 The UN Partition Resolution
Chapter 96 The Birth of the State of Israel
Chapter 97 Jerusalem and Israel's War of Independence
Chapter 98 "Operation Magic Carpet" and "Operation Ezra and Nehemiah"
Chapter 99 German Restitution to Victims of Nazism
Chapter 100 The "Doctors' Plot": Prelude to Stalin's "Final Solution"?
Chapter 101 The Sinai Campaign
Chapter 102 The Eichmann Trial
Chapter 103 The Six-Day War
Chapter 104 The Yom Kippur War
Chapter 105 Peace with Egypt
Chapter 106 The Ordination of Female Rabbis
Chapter 107 The Falashas Arrive in Israel
Chapter 108 The Jewish People Enter the 21st Century