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Author(s): Alan T. Levenson
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Year: 2012
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ISBN 10: 1405196378

ISBN 13: 9781405196376

Author: Alan T. Levenson

The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism presents a panoramic and comprehensive overview of the major aspects of Jewish life and culture, from the biblical period through to contemporary times.

A collection of outstanding contributions from leading experts presents the latest scholarship on a range of questions relating to Jews, Jewish history, Judaism, folk practices, politics, economic structure, the relationship of Judaism to Christianity, and the manifold participation of Jews in general culture through various times and geographical locales. In addition, the book explores Jewish historiography and the lives of ordinary people, the achievements of Jewish women, and the sustained interaction of Jews within the environments they inhabited.

In exploring the major periods and themes of Jewish history and the history of Judaism, the volume features a wide range of contemporary approaches that demonstrate the maturation of Jewish studies. Special attention is accorded to underrepresented eras, including the early modern and post-1945 periods of Jewish history in all their major dimensions. More contentious scholarly issues – such as the relationship of Ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible, or the nature of Zionism diaspora and its implications for contemporary Israel – feature multiple essays that reveal varied points of view. Lively and informative, this essential single-volume reference reflects our current state of knowledge on the evolution of Jewish life and culture, from its ancient origins to the modern age.

Table of 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

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