A History of the Jews in the Modern WorldKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 12 սեպ, 2006 թ. - 848 էջ The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years. Tracking their fate from Western Europe’s age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet and post-imperialist Islamic upheavals of the twenty-first century, Sachar applies his renowned narrative skill to the central role of the Jews in many of the most impressive achievements of modern civilization: whether in the rise of economic capitalism or of political socialism; in the discoveries of theoretical physics or applied medicine; in “higher” literary criticism or mass communication and popular entertainment. As his account unfolds and moves from epoch to epoch, from continent to continent, from Europe to the Americas and the Middle East, Sachar evaluates communities that, until lately, have been underestimated in the perspective of Jewish and world history—among them, Jews of Sephardic provenance, of the Moslem regions, and of Africa. By the same token, Sachar applies a master’s hand in describing and deciphering the Jews’ unique exposure and functional usefulness to totalitarian movements—fascist, Nazi, and Stalinist. In the process, he shines an unsparing light on the often widely dissimilar behavior of separate European peoples, and on separate Jewish populations, during the Holocaust. A distillation of the author’s lifetime of scholarly research and teaching experience, A History of the Jews in the Modern World provides a source of unsurpassed intellectual richness for university students and educated laypersons alike. |
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The Jew as NonEuropean | 3 |
A Glimmering of Dawn in the West | 18 |
An Ambivalent Emancipation in the West | 34 |
The Jews of Tsarist Russia | 51 |
The Triumph of Emancipation in the West | 73 |
Jews in an Emancipated Economy | 100 |
The Impact of Western Culture on Jewish Life | 120 |
A SephardicOriental Diaspora | 138 |
19191939 | 399 |
The Triumph of East European Fascism | 418 |
A Final Symbiosis of Jewish and Western Culture | 444 |
A Climactic Onslaught of Postwar Antisemitism | 469 |
The Triumph of Nazism | 492 |
19331939 | 514 |
The Holocaust of European Jewry | 527 |
The Final Solution and the Struggle for Jewish Survival | 551 |
The Rise of Jewish Life in America | 155 |
Alexander II and the Era of Enlightenment | 175 |
The Era of Pogroms and May Laws | 193 |
18811914 | 207 |
The Onset of Modern Antisemitism | 222 |
The Mutation of Racism | 242 |
The Rise of Zionism | 255 |
Tsarist Russia | 284 |
The Trauma of World War I | 310 |
The Triumph of Bolshevism | 323 |
The Balfour Declaration and the Jewish National Home | 344 |
Immigrant Jewry in the United States | 370 |
The Birth of Israel | 572 |
A Failed Convalescence | 595 |
A Precarious Revival in Western Europe | 629 |
The Jews of British Commonwealth | 648 |
A Latin Israel in the Southern Hemisphere | 668 |
The Efflorescence of AmericanJewish Community | 685 |
The Jewish State and World Jewry | 702 |
Irael the United States and the Struggle for Soviet Jewry | 717 |
Afterword | 736 |
Bibliography | 745 |
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