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The Wiley-Blackwell history of Jews and Judaism / edited by Alan T. Levenson.

Contributor(s): Levenson, Alan T
Material type: TextTextSeries: Wiley-Blackwell histories of religion: Publisher: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: xvi, 690 pages ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781405196376 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1405196378 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Jews -- History | Judaism -- HistoryDDC classification: 909/.04924 LOC classification: DS118 | .W62 2012Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Ancient Israel -- What is the Hebrew Bible? / Frederick E. Greenspahn -- How "historical" is ancient Israel? / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Priests and Levites in the Hebrew Bible / Stephen A. Geller -- How unique was Israelite prophecy? / Jonathan Stökl -- Judaism after the exile: the later books of the Bible / Daniel C. Snell -- Translation: the biblical legacy to Judaism / Leonard Greenspoon -- From ancient Israel to rabbinic Jewry -- Jews in the land during the Second Temple period / Steven Werlin -- Jews in Egypt: the special case of the Septuagint / Peg Kershenbaum -- Early Christianity in a Jewish context / Julie Galambush -- The Babylonian consolidation of rabbinic Judaism / Shai Secunda -- The medieval world: Jews in two cultures -- Jews in Christian Europe: Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages / Eva Haverkamp -- The Jews in the medieval Arabic-speaking world / Norman (Noam) Stillman -- Turning point: the Spanish expulsion / Jane S. Gerber -- Medieval Jewish mysticism / Hartley Lachter -- The early modern period (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) -- Judaism and science in the Age of Discovery / Joseph M. Davis -- A history of Hasidism: origins and developments / Gadi Sagiv -- Jews and Judaism in the early modern New World: Central and North America / Dean Phillip Bell -- The Jews of the Ottoman Empire / Yaron Ayalon -- The modern period -- How Jews modernized: the Western nations / Carsten Schapkow -- The Zionist movement and the path to statehood / Brian Amkraut -- The Jews in the land of the Russian tsars / Jarrod Tanny -- The great migration: 1881-1924 / Jessica Cooperman -- Polish Jewry between the world wars / Sean Martin -- Organized movements of American Judaism: from 1880 to World War II / Michael R. Cohen -- Paths of modernity: Jewish women in central Europe / Kerry Wallach -- Antisemitism and anti-Jewish hostility / Richard S. Levy -- Jews and Judaism since the Holocaust and the birth of Israel -- The existential crisis of the Holocaust / Peter Haas -- American Jews and the Jewish state / David Bamberger -- Judaism(s) in contemporary America / Dana Evan Kaplan -- Traditional Judaism in the twenty-first century / Mark I. Dunaevsky -- Contemporary American Jewish culture / Ted Merwin -- Israeli culture from 1948 to the present / Keren Rubinstein -- The Israeli economy / Paul Rivlin -- Ethnic diversity in Israel / Ari Ariel -- Special topics -- The world of Jewish music / Marsha Bryan Edelman -- American Jewry's identification with Israel: problems and prospects / Laurence J. Silberstein -- The Jewish holy days / Stanley Schachter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Ancient Israel -- What is the Hebrew Bible? / Frederick E. Greenspahn -- How "historical" is ancient Israel? / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Priests and Levites in the Hebrew Bible / Stephen A. Geller -- How unique was Israelite prophecy? / Jonathan Stökl -- Judaism after the exile: the later books of the Bible / Daniel C. Snell -- Translation: the biblical legacy to Judaism / Leonard Greenspoon -- Part II. From ancient Israel to rabbinic Jewry -- Jews in the land during the Second Temple period / Steven Werlin -- Jews in Egypt: the special case of the Septuagint / Peg Kershenbaum -- Early Christianity in a Jewish context / Julie Galambush -- The Babylonian consolidation of rabbinic Judaism / Shai Secunda -- Part III. The medieval world: Jews in two cultures -- Jews in Christian Europe: Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages / Eva Haverkamp -- The Jews in the medieval Arabic-speaking world / Norman (Noam) Stillman -- Turning point: the Spanish expulsion / Jane S. Gerber -- Medieval Jewish mysticism / Hartley Lachter -- Part IV. The early modern period (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) -- Judaism and science in the Age of Discovery / Joseph M. Davis -- A history of Hasidism: origins and developments / Gadi Sagiv -- Jews and Judaism in the early modern New World: Central and North America / Dean Phillip Bell -- The Jews of the Ottoman Empire / Yaron Ayalon -- Part V. The modern period -- How Jews modernized: the Western nations / Carsten Schapkow -- The Zionist movement and the path to statehood / Brian Amkraut -- The Jews in the land of the Russian tsars / Jarrod Tanny -- The great migration: 1881-1924 / Jessica Cooperman -- Polish Jewry between the world wars / Sean Martin -- Organized movements of American Judaism: from 1880 to World War II / Michael R. Cohen -- Paths of modernity: Jewish women in central Europe / Kerry Wallach -- Antisemitism and anti-Jewish hostility / Richard S. Levy -- Part VI. Jews and Judaism since the Holocaust and the birth of Israel -- The existential crisis of the Holocaust / Peter Haas -- American Jews and the Jewish state / David Bamberger -- Judaism(s) in contemporary America / Dana Evan Kaplan -- Traditional Judaism in the twenty-first century / Mark I. Dunaevsky -- Contemporary American Jewish culture / Ted Merwin -- Israeli culture from 1948 to the present / Keren Rubinstein -- The Israeli economy / Paul Rivlin -- Ethnic diversity in Israel / Ari Ariel -- Part VII. Special topics -- The world of Jewish music / Marsha Bryan Edelman -- American Jewry's identification with Israel: problems and prospects / Laurence J. Silberstein -- The Jewish holy days / Stanley Schachter.

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