Jews and Judaism in World History

chained to their machine guns to make sure they did not desert. The Arab forces also had a decided lack of military experience. ...

became the core of the Israeli political opposition. Menachem Begin, the principal disciple of Jabotinsky and the leader of the ...

The influx of Jews from Arab lands, moreover, introduced a social tension within Israeli society. The Zionist enterprise and the ...

In the United States, the creation of Israel would have its most visible impact only after 1967. Between 1945 and 1967, American ...

The generation of American Jews that came of age during the 1950s, moreover, lacked not only a widespread commitment to traditio ...

the difference between the alleged weakness of diaspora Jews and the power and vigor of Israelis. In this sense, the Six Day War ...

Outside of Israel, too, the Six Day War had a significant impact on Jewish life, particularly in the United States. As in Israel ...

The mass exodus of Jews from the lands of the recently defunct Soviet Union set the stage for world Jewry to face the twenty-fir ...

world Jewry. For those who see the Jewish past as a lachrymose trail of perse- cution and adversity, the State of Israel represe ...

There are, of course, limits to this sense of unity. Consider the contentious disagreement over whether or not the Beta Yisrael, ...

Historical atlases Eli Barnavi, A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People: From the Time of the Patriarchs to the Present (Schocke ...

Essential papers on Jewish studies (New York University Press) Individual volumes: Michael Chernick, The Talmud(1994) Jeremy Coh ...

David Ruderman, Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe(Wayne State University Press, 2001) Stefanie Sieg ...

Eli Lederhendler, The Road to Modern Jewish Politics: Political Tradition and Political Reconstruction in the Jewish Community o ...

Index Abbas I 106 Abbas II 106 Abbasids 64, 67, 69 Abd-ar-Rachman I 69 Abd-ar-Rachman II 69 Abd-ar-Rachman III 69, 70 Abraham 7, ...

Antipater 34 Arab nationalism 216 Arab-Israeli conflict 215–17, 233–4, 239 Arabic 65 Arendt, Hannah 77, 184, 238–9 Aristobulus I ...

Chmielnicki massacres (1648) 3, 124–7, 133 Chorin, Aron 159 Christian Kabbalists 107–8 Christiani, Pablo 98 Christianity/Christi ...

Enlightenment 145–6 Eötvös, Joseph 163 Ephraim 17 Epstein, Baruch 216 Erasmus 108 Esau 8, 9, 51 Essenes 37, 38 Esther, Queen 1 E ...

Halevi, Yehuda 72–3 Hamburg Israelite Temple Association 156 Hamburg Temple 156, 157, 160 Hanukkah lights 52 Hapsburg Monarchy 1 ...

Babylonians (586) 22; and failed Assyrian siege on Jerusalem 19–20; flaws of tribal confederation 9–10; and Persian rule 23–4; a ...