4th Edition

The Jews in the Modern Age

By John Efron Copyright 2025
406 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

406 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

406 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Providing a broad as well as a pointillist overview of modern Jewish history on a global scale from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book analyzes how the Jewish people have been dramatically transformed by the forces of social, economic, political, technological, and demographic change. Now in a new edition as a split volume, this second volume of a comprehensive history of the... Read more

1. The State of the Jews, the Jews and the State  2. Modern Transformations  3. The Politics of Being Jewish  4. A World Upended  5. The Holocaust  6. Into the Present

Biography

John M. Efron is Koret Professor of Jewish History at the University of California at Berkeley. He specializes in the cultural and social history of German Jewry. He is the author of German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic (2016) and All Consuming: Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of Meat (2025).