The Modern Jewish experience : a reader's guide / edited by Jack Wertheimer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I: A guide to fields of study. The Jews in early modern central and western Europe / M. Bodian -- Polish Jewry to the partitions / David E. Fishman -- The Jews in imperial Russia ; Soviet Jewry / Eli Lederhendler -- The Jews of Austria-Hungary / Marsha L. Rozenblit -- The Jews of North Africa and the Middle East / Jane Gerber -- American Jewish history / Jack Wertheimer -- Jews in Commonwealth countries / Gideon Shimoni -- Israeli society and culture / Chaim I. Waxman -- Latin American Jewry / Victor A. Mirelman -- The traditional Jewish community / M. Bodian -- Jewish emancipation ; Secular Jewish culture / David Weinberg -- Modern Jewish social history / Shulamit S. Magnus -- The mass migration of East European Jews / Jack Wertheimer -- Modern antisemitism and Jewish responses ; The Holocaust / Marsha L. Rozenblit -- Hasidism and its opponents / David E. Fishman -- Religious movements in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Eastern Europe / Allan L. Nadler -- Modern Jewish religious movements / Alan Mittelman -- Modern Jewish politics / Eli Lederhendler -- Zionist ideology / Gideon Shimoni -- Religious culture and politics in Israel / Chaim I. Waxman -- Modern Jewish literature / David G. Roskies -- Jewish art in the modern era / Richard I. Cohen -- Jewish music in the modern era / Neil W. Levin -- Modern Jewish thought / Neil Gillman -- Modern Jewish demography / Sergio DellaPergola -- American and Canadian Jewish sociology / Stuart Schoenfeld -- Pt. II: Teaching resources. An annotated guide to major reference works / Jack Wertheimer -- The modern Jewish experience / Compiled by the American team for a course taught in the U.S. -- The modern Jewish experience / Compiled by Milton Shain for a course taught in South Africa -- The modern Jewish experience / Compiled by Nancy L. Green for a course taught in France -- The modern Jewish experience / Compiled by Uri Kaufmann for a course taught in Germany -- The modern Jewish experience / Compiled by Mark Kupovetsky for a course taught in Russia -- The modern Jewish experience / Compiled by Silvia Schenkolewski-Kroll for a course taught in Argentina.