Research Catalog

Title

A short history of the Jewish people : from legendary times to modern statehood / Raymond P. Scheindlin.

Author

Scheindlin, Raymond P.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

xiii, 274 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Summary

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Israelite Origins and Kingdom 2. Judea and the Origins of the Dispora 3. Roman Palestine and Sassanid Babylonia 4. The Jews in the Islamic World: From the Rise of Islam to the End of the Middle Ages 5. The Jews of Medieval Christian Europe 6. The Jews in the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East 7. The Jews of Western Europe 8. The Jews of Eastern Europe and the United States 9. The Holocaust 10. Zionism and the Origins of the State of Israel 11. The Jewish People after 1948 Bibliography Index.

Alternative Title

Jewish people

Subjects

• History
• Jews > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Previously published: New York, NY : Macmillan, 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-269) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Israelite origins and kingdom (Before 1220 B.C.E. to 587 B.C.E.) -- Judea and the origins of the Diaspora (587 B.C.E. to 70 C.E.) -- Roman Palestine and Sassanid Babylonia (70 C.E. to 632) -- The Jews in the Islamic world: from the rise of Islam to the end of the Middle Ages (632 to 1500) -- The Jews of medieval Christian Europe (Ninth century to 1500) -- The Jews in the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East (1453 to 1948) -- The Jews of Western Europe (1500 to 1900) -- The Jews of Eastern Europe and the United States (1770 to 1940) -- The Holocaust -- Zionism and the origins of the state of Israel -- The Jewish people after 1948.

ISBN

• 0195139410
• 9780195139419 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^00039206^

OCLC

• 43919809
• SCSB-11177714

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library