Contents
- Introduction: dimensions of Jewish history- 1 The world of the Hebrew Bible
- 2 The challenge of Hellenism
- 3 The rise of Rabbinic Judaism
- 4 The Jews of Islam
- 5 The Jews of medieval Christendom
- 6 World Jewry in flux, 1492–1750
- 7 The age of enlightenment and emancipation, 1750–1880
- 8 Anti-Semitism and Jewish responses, 1870–1914
- 9 From renewal to devastation, 1914–45
- 10 Jews in the postwar world
- Conclusion: world Jewry faces the twenty-first century
- Further reading
- Index