Jewish History

This history book provides an excellent opporunity for the reader to walk the path of the Jewish people through four thousand years of history. It recounts the dramatic changes in the Jewish lifestyle from the biblical period until modern times. Unlike most other history books, its easy-to-read style makes learning about Jewish history easy to absorb and an enjoyable reading experience. The book covers five major areas of Jewish history. biblical history, European history, life in the United States, the Holocaust history, and the history of the State of Israel. It ends with an insight to Jewish survival prospects. This book also provides a view of the major personalities involved in each historical period and area. The Biblical history section provides an insight to the birth of Judaism and the Jewish theological One-God concept that spawned Christianity and Muhammadanism, the exodus from Egypt story, basic Jewish theological messages and practices, the history of the Jewish kingdoms and the Maccabean period, the major Jewish Prophets and their impact on Jewish history, initial exile from Judah, the return and the transformation from the God-centered sacrificial Judasim to current rabbinic-centered Judaism, the Roman domination and the relationship to Christianity, and the expulsion from the Jewish homeland that lasted almost two thousand years. Additional areas of interest include a brief introduction to the Talmud and the imapact the Muslim world had on Jewsih religious and cultural history. European Jewish history is like the spectrum of light, shining bright during the Golden Age in Spain, turning black during four centuries of terror and oppression associated with the crusades and the expulsion from Spain and other countries-- it was the age of the wandering and depressed Jews that spawned several false messiahs. Europe turned more colorful for the Jewish people during its period of European political enlightenment resulting in Jewish religious enlightenment and the birth of the modern Zionist movement. Jewish history in the United States represents such a short period with respect to the long history of the Jewish people but these four hunded years had most remarkable results--the largest Jewish popualtion of any country in the world, living with religious freedom, political equality, and minimum anti-Semitism. Jewish contributions to the development of the United States are highlighted. An insight to the birth of the Jewish religious diversity and t

שנה

2002

שפה

English

הוצאה

Vantage Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

449

ISBN

9780533138036

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata