Author: KEDOURIE, ELIE
Title: The Jewish world : revelation, prophecy, and history / edited by Elie Kedourie ; texts by Elie Kedourie [and others]
Description: London : Thames and Hudson 2003. First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed. stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.Physical description; 328 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm. Notes; Includes index. Bibliography: p. 319-320. Contents; Introduction / Elie Kedourie -- I. A people and a book -- Pre-exilic Jewry / H.W.F. Saggs -- The Bible / Hyam Maccoby -- II. The making of Jewry -- The Jews and the great powers of the ancient world / Zvi Yavetz -- The Talmud / Jacob Neusner -- The ritual and music of the synagogue / Anmon Shiloah -- III. Diaspora : Jews under Christianity and Islam -- The Jews in Spain / Haim Beinart -- The Jews in Byzantium and medieval Europe / A. Grossman -- The Jews under Islam 6th-16th centuries / Shelomo Dov Goitein -- c. 1500-today / Amnon Cohen -- IV. The inner world -- Jewish philosophy / Arthur Hyman -- Jewish mysticism / R.J. Zwi Werblowsky -- The Jews and the Enlightenment / S. Ettinger -- V. Tradition and change -- Jewish literature-fiction / Ezra Spicehandler -- Poetry / T. Carmi -- European Jewry in the 19th and 20th centuries / Lionel Kochan -- American Jewry / Oscar Handlin -- VI. The modern world : constraint and options -- Judaism and modernity / Arthur Hertzberg -- Zionism and Israel / David Vital. Summary; The Jews are one of the great enigmas of history. What makes them unique? What has given them their resilience. their power of survival and their ability to adapt to radically new conditions without losing their identity? What combination of religious faith. social organization. intellectual toughness and poetic imagination constitutes Jewishness? Eighteen eminent scholars address these questions in this illustrated survey of Jewish history from its earliest days to the appearance of Zionism and the foundation of Israel. Equal weight is given to Judaica and to the ways in which Judaism has coped with the challenges of modernity. Subjects; Jews - History. Judaism - History. Jews - Civilization. Jews - History - Addresses. essays. lectures. Jews - Civilization - Addresses. essays. lectures. Judaism - History - Addresses. essays. lectures. Jews. to 1978. Judaism ; World history ; Jewish studies ; Social & cultural history. History / World. Religion / General. History / Jewish. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. ISBN: 0500250669. Weight in Kg appr.:

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