A history of the Jews in the modern world
By: Howard M. Sachar.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 831
Subjects: Jews -- History -- 17th century; Jews -- History -- 18th century; Jews -- History -- 1789-1945; Jews -- History -- 1945-
Description: Traces four hundred years of Jewish history from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and discusses the anti-semitism facing European Jews, the Jews of czarist Russia, their struggle for civil rights in the 1830s and 1840s, Jewish life in America, the effects of World War One and the Holocaust of World War Two, and much more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.