ISBN:
0679727469
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 891 S
,
graph. Darst.
Edition:
New rev. ed., 1. Vintage Books ed
Year of publication:
1990
DDC:
909.04924
Keywords:
Jews History 1789-1945
;
Jews History 1945-
Abstract:
Jew as non-European -- Glimmering of dawn in the West -- Emancipation in the West -- Incarceration: the Jews of Eastern Europe -- Triumph of liberalism -- Jewish economic life and the Frankfurt tradition -- Impact of Western culture on Jewish life -- Rise of Jewish life in the new world -- False dawn in the East -- Jewish humanism in Eastern Europe -- Emergence of anti-Semitism -- Beginning of the end for Russian Jewry -- Rise of Zionism -- Growth of Jewish socialism -- Great migration and settlement in America -- Russian Jewry's "liberal" tradition in America -- Jews of Eastern Europe between the wars -- Palestine mandate -- Impact of the Jews on Western culture -- Onslaught of Nazism -- Europe Judenrein -- Birth of Israel -- Eastern Europe in the postwar -- Precarious revival in democratic Europe -- Antipodal Jewish "third world" -- Growth of the American-Jewish community -- State of Israel -- Growth of the Israeli nation -- Greater Israel
Description / Table of Contents:
Jew as non-European -- Glimmering of dawn in the West -- Emancipation in the West -- Incarceration: the Jews of Eastern Europe -- Triumph of liberalism -- Jewish economic life and the Frankfurt tradition -- Impact of Western culture on Jewish life -- Rise of Jewish life in the new world -- False dawn in the East -- Jewish humanism in Eastern Europe -- Emergence of anti-Semitism -- Beginning of the end for Russian Jewry -- Rise of Zionism -- Growth of Jewish socialism -- Great migration and settlement in America -- Russian Jewry's "liberal" tradition in America -- Jews of Eastern Europe between the wars -- Palestine mandate -- Impact of the Jews on Western culture -- Onslaught of Nazism -- Europe Judenrein -- Birth of Israel -- Eastern Europe in the postwar -- Precarious revival in democratic Europe -- Antipodal Jewish "third world" -- Growth of the American-Jewish community -- State of Israel -- Growth of the Israeli nation -- Greater Israel.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 819-865) and index
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