Research Catalog

Title

The Wiley-Blackwell history of Jews and Judaism / edited by Alan T. Levenson.

Publication

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Levenson, Alan T.

Description

xvi, 690 p.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

The Wiley-Blackwell histories of religion

Uniform Title

Wiley-Blackwell histories of religion.

Subjects

• Judaism
• Judaism > History
• Jews > History
• History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Ancient Israel -- 1. What is the Hebrew Bible? / Frederick E. Greenspahn -- 2. How "historical" is ancient Israel? / Ehud Ben Zvi -- 3. Priests and Levites in the Hebrew Bible / Stephen A. Geller -- 4. How unique was Israelite prophecy? / Jonathan Stökl -- 5. Judaism after the exile: the later books of the Bible / Daniel C. Snell -- 6. Translation: the biblical legacy to Judaism / Leonard Greenspoon -- Part II. From ancient Israel to rabbinic Jewry -- 7. Jews in the land during the Second Temple period / Steven Werlin -- 8. Jews in Egypt: the special case of the Septuagint / Peg Kershenbaum -- 9. Early Christianity in a Jewish context / Julie Galambush -- 10. The Babylonian consolidation of rabbinic Judaism / Shai Secunda -- Part III. The medieval world: Jews in two cultures -- 11. Jews in Christian Europe: Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages / Eva Haverkamp -- 12. The Jews in the medieval Arabic-speaking world / Norman (Noam) Stillman -- 13. Turning point: the Spanish expulsion / Jane S. Gerber -- 14. Medieval Jewish mysticism / Hartley Lachter -- Part IV. The early modern period (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) -- 15. Judaism and science in the Age of Discovery / Joseph M. Davis -- 16. A history of Hasidism: origins and developments / Gadi Sagiv -- 17. Jews and Judaism in the early modern New World: Central and North America / Dean Phillip Bell -- 18. The Jews of the Ottoman Empire / Yaron Ayalon -- Part V. The modern period -- 19. How Jews modernized: the Western nations / Carsten Schapkow -- 20. The Zionist movement and the path to statehood / Brian Amkraut -- 21. The Jews in the land of the Russian tsars / Jarrod Tanny -- 22. The great migration: 1881-1924 / Jessica Cooperman -- 23. Polish Jewry between the world wars / Sean Martin -- 24. Organized movements of American Judaism: from 1880 to World War II / Michael R. Cohen -- 25. Paths of modernity: Jewish women in central Europe / Kerry Wallach -- 26. Antisemitism and anti-Jewish hostility / Richard S. Levy -- Part VI. Jews and Judaism since the Holocaust and the birth of Israel -- 27. The existential crisis of the Holocaust / Peter Haas -- 28. American Jews and the Jewish state / David Bamberger -- 29. Judaism(s) in contemporary America / Dana Evan Kaplan -- 30. Traditional Judaism in the twenty-first century / Mark I. Dunaevsky -- 31. Contemporary American Jewish culture / Ted Merwin -- 32. Israeli culture from 1948 to the present / Keren Rubinstein -- 33. The Israeli economy / Paul Rivlin -- 34. Ethnic diversity in Israel / Ari Ariel -- Part VII. Special topics -- 35. The world of Jewish music / Marsha Bryan Edelman -- 36. American Jewry's identification with Israel: problems and prospects / Laurence J. Silberstein -- 37. The Jewish holy days / Stanley Schachter.

Call Number

*PXE 14-145

ISBN

• 9781405196376 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1405196378 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2011046001
• 99949903773

OCLC

757479071

Title

The Wiley-Blackwell history of Jews and Judaism / edited by Alan T. Levenson.

Imprint

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, c2012.

Series

The Wiley-Blackwell histories of religion

Wiley-Blackwell histories of religion.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Levenson, Alan T.

Other Standard Identifier

99949903773

Research Call Number

*PXE 14-145