Research Catalog

Title

The way Jews lived : five hundred years of printed words and images / Constance Harris ; foreword by Shalom Sabar.

Author

Harris, Constance

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2009.

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Description

vii, 469 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 26 cm

Summary

"The author presents through pictures and text a social history of Jewish life and art in the last 500 years. Each chapter relates the brief history of a period, devoting particular attention to events concerning Jewish life"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

• Jews > History
• Judaism > History
• Jewish art
• Judaism and art

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-461) and index.

Contents

Jewish art : in the beginning -- The fifteenth century : printmaking and printing begin -- The sixteenth century : let there be books -- The seventeenth century: the old world and the new -- The eighteenth century : enlightenment, emancipation -- England in the nineteenth century : industry and the politics of equity -- France in the nineteenth century : Napoleon and the rise of Zionism -- Central Europe and Russia in the nineteenth century : modern -- Anti-semitism -- America in the nineteenth century : immigration and liberation -- England in the twentieth century: working class to upper class -- France in the twentieth century: grandeur and loss -- Germany and austria in the twentieth century : disaster and renewal -- Russia and eastern europe in the twentieth century : radical -- Theories, mass migrations -- America in the twentieth century : from the immigrant experience -- To modernity -- Israel in the twentieth century : Erets Yisrael, hope deferred.

Call Number

N7415

ISBN

• 9780786434404
• 0786434406

LCCN

2008036564

OCLC

182656612

Author

Harris, Constance, author.

Title

The way Jews lived : five hundred years of printed words and images / Constance Harris ; foreword by Shalom Sabar.

Publisher

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2009.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-461) and index.

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Table of contents

Table of contents only

Research Call Number

Desk-JWS N7415 .H36 2009