A history of the Jews
Edition: 5th ed., rev. and enl.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1966
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 478
Copyright date: 1964
Subjects: Jews -- History
Description: A complete history of thirty centuries of Judaism, with emphasis on economic, social and environmental factors and religious and philosophical development. For other editions, see Author Catalog.
Notes: "©1964. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged, January 1965. Reprinted February 1966." - Title page verso.
Bibliography: p. 471-478.
Table of contents: title: Part one.; title: 1. The cast of characters; title: 2. The origins of the Hebrews; title: 3. The Hebrews enter Palestine; title: 4. The growth of national consciousness; title: 5. A house divided against itself; title: 6. The prophets : the living Hebrew conscience; title: 7. The rise of Judaism; title: 8. Life and labour in biblical Palestine; title: 9. The meeting of Hellenism and Hebraism; title: 10. The end of the Jewish state; title: 11. The rise of Christianity; title: Part two.; title: 12. The development of the Talmud; title: 13. The new Moslem world; title: 14. The golden age in Moslem Spain; title: 15. Four bloody centuries in Christian Europe; title: 16. The decline and fall of Jewish life in Spain; title: 17. Havens of refuge; title: 18. Degeneration; title: 19. The Jew in the mediaeval world; title: Part three.; title: 20. The end of the Jewish Middle Ages; title: 21. The fall of the mediaeval citadel; title: 22. The triumph of liberalism; title: 23. Factors in American Jewish history; title: 24. The Russian Jewish nightmare; title: 25. Cultural and religious changes; title: 26. The revival of anti-Semitism; title: 27. Zionism; title: 28. From Sarajevo to San Remo, 1914-20; title: 29. Europe between the wars; title: 30. The western hemisphere in the twentieth century; title: 31. The epic of Palestine; title: 32. World War II and after; title: 33. The new state of Israel