The way Jews lived
Subtitle: five hundred years of printed words and images
By: Constance Harris ; foreword by Shalom Sabar.
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9780786434404
Subjects: Art, Jewish; Judaism and art; Jews -- History; Judaism -- History
Description: "The author presents through pictures and text a social history of Jewish life and art in the last 500 years. Each chapter relates the brief history of a period, devoting particular attention to events concerning Jewish life"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jewish art : in the beginning; title: The fifteenth century : printmaking and printing begin; title: The sixteenth century : let there be books; title: The seventeenth century: the old world and the new; title: The eighteenth century : enlightenment, emancipation; title: England in the nineteenth century : industry and the politics of equity; title: France in the nineteenth century : Napoleon and the rise of Zionism; title: Central Europe and Russia in the nineteenth century : modern; title: Anti-semitism; title: America in the nineteenth century : immigration and liberation; title: England in the twentieth century: working class to upper class; title: France in the twentieth century: grandeur and loss; title: Germany and austria in the twentieth century : disaster and renewal; title: Russia and eastern europe in the twentieth century : radical; title: Theories, mass migrations; title: America in the twentieth century : from the immigrant experience; title: To modernity; title: Israel in the twentieth century : Erets Yisrael, hope deferred.