Encyclopedia of Jewish History
Subtitle: Events and Eras of the Jewish People
Publisher: Checkmark Books
Published: March 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780816012206
Subjects: History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Jewish studies; Jews; History Of Jews; Religion - Judaism; History: American; Judaism; Jewish; Judaism - General; Dictionaries; History; Israel
Table of contents: title: Major themes in the history of the Jewish people -- Erez Israel in prehistoric times -- Pre-Israelite Canaan -- From the patriarchs to the Exodus -- The period of settlement and of the judges -- Kingdom : united and divided -- Kingdom of Israel -- Kingdom of Judah -- Destruction and Exile -- The return to Zion -- Erez Israel in the fourth and third centuries BCE -- Seleucid rule and edicts of Antiochus -- Hasmonean revolt and political independence -- Hasmonean state -- Herod and his successors -- Leadership in Hasmonean and Roman times -- Great Revolt -- Nation rallies after the destruction -- Bar Kokhba revolt -- Judah ha-Nasi and his era -- Egyptian Jewish community in ancient times -- Jewish community in Babylonia -- Erez Israel under Byzantine Rule -- Erez Israel under Arab Rule -- Babylonia as a national center -- Encounter with Islam in Spain -- Medieval European attitudes to the Jews -- Ashkenaz in the l0th-l3th Centuries -- Jews and Crusaders in Erez Israel -- Jews in Christian Spain -- Expulsion of the Jews from Western Europe -- Jewish Community of Poland up to the 18th century -- Eastern Jewry after the expulsion from Spain -- Anusim -- Anusim and Iberian Jews in the West -- 16th Century Erez Israel -- Messianism in Jewry --  Shabbateanism -- Community as the framework of Jewish life -- Insular community and Jewish art -- How to merit the status of citizen -- “Liberté, Egalite, Fraternité” for Jews as well -- Jewish art and the emancipation -- Hasidim and Mitnaggedim -- Jewish community in Russia : 1772-1881 -- Legal status of Jews in Muslim lands -- Jewish economic life in Muslim lands -- Jewish community and culture in Muslim lands -- Pogroms of Eastern Europe -- Reawakening of Jewish nationalism -- Modern Anti-Semitism -- Zionism becomes a political movement -- Jewish culture in Eastern Europe until World War II -- Jewish Ethnic Communities -- Wandering Jew -- Origins of the American Jewish community -- Shaping the American Jewish community -- 19th Century Erez Israel -- Foundations of Zionism in Erez Israel -- Yemenite Jews and Erez Israel -- British mandate and the Zionists -- Aliyah During the 1920s -- Arab Nationalism -- Jewish defense organizations -- Nazi Anti-Semitic policy -- Immigration and settlement in the 1930s -- Arab Uprising -- Jewish economy in Palestine until 1939 -- Emergence of Hebrew culture in Erez Israel -- Britain retreats from its support for Zionism -- Underground movements -- Jews in the trap of Nazi rule -- Life in the ghetto -- Holocaust -- Rescue operations during the Holocaust -- Jewish resistance in the Holocaust -- Zionism and Aliyah from Muslim countries -- Palestine during World War II -- National institutions of the “state-in-the-making” -- Yishuv takes up the struggle -- American Jewry’s political activities -- Establishing the state of Israel -- Israeli War of independence (A) -- Israeli War of Independence (B) -- Building the new state -- Israel’s first decade -- Defense in the first decade -- Economics and society in Israel’s second decade -- From the Sinai campaign to the Six-Day War -- Economics and society in greater Israel (1967-1973) -- From the Six-Day War to the Yom Kippur War -- Peace with Egypt; War in Lebanon -- A decade of change (1974-1984) -- Arabs and other minorities in Israel -- Education and culture in Israel -- Histadrut (General Federation of Labor) -- Kibbutz -- American Jewry in the mid-1980s -- Jews in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe -- Jewish people in the contemporary period -- Jerusalem throughout the ages -- Appendices. Ancient Hebrew script -- From Hebrew manuscripts to Hebrew printing -- Modern Hebrew letter printing -- Symbols in Jewish art : myths of creation -- Symbols in Jewish art : exile and redemption -- Symbols in Jewish art : the meeting of cultures -- Distinctive features of Jewish costume -- Ritual and ceremonial aspects of  Jewish dress -- Costumes of Moroccan Jews -- Costumes of Yemenite Jews -- Costumes of Jews in the Middle East and Central Asia -- Jewish paper-cuts -- Chronological chart of Jewish and world history -- Glossary.