The Jews
Subtitle: a history
By: John Efron, University of California, Berkeley, Steven Weitzman, Stanford University, Matthias Lehmann, University of California, Irvine
Contributors: Weitzman, Steven, 1965-; Lehmann, Matthias B., 1970-
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 541
ISBN-13: 9780205858262
Subjects: History; Judaism; Juden; Judentum; Jews
Description: "The Jews: A History, 2/e, explores the religious, cultural, social, and economic diversity of the Jewish people and their faith. The latest edition incorporates new research and includes a broader spectrum of people &#x2014; mothers, children, workers, students, artists, and radicals &#x2014; whose perspectives greatly expand the story of Jewish life..."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancient Israel and other ancestors; title: Becoming the people of the book; title: Jews and Greeks; title: Between Caesar and God; title: From Temple to Talmud; title: Under the crescent; title: Under the cross; title: A Jewish renaissance; title: New worlds, East and West; title: The state of the Jews, the Jews and the state; title: Modern transformations; title: The politics of being Jewish; title: A world upended; title: The Holocaust; title: Into the present.