Introduction: The dimensions of Jewish history. 1. The world of the Hebrew bible 2. The age of Hellenism: Athens, Rome and Jerusalem 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 8. Anti-semitism and Jewish responses, 1870-1914 9. From renewal to devastation 10. Jews in the post-war world Conclusion: world Jewry faces the 21st century. Bibliographic essay.
Biography
Howard N. Lupovitch is the Waks Family Associate Professor of Jewish History at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Jews at the Crossroads: Tradition and Accommodation during the Golden Age of the Hungarian Nobility (2007)
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'...a welcome and helpful introduction for the non-specialist.' – Journal of Jewish Studies
