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Author:

Sachar, Howard Morley, 1928-

Title:

A history of the Jews in the modern world / Howard M. Sachar.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xii, 831 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Jews--History--17th century.
Jews--History--18th century.
Jews--History--1789-1945.
Jews--History--1945-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [745]-786) and index.

Contents:

The Jew as non-European -- A glimmering of dawn in the west -- An ambivalent emancipation in the west -- Incarceration: the Jews of tsarist Russia -- The triumph of emancipation in the west -- Jews in an emancipated economy -- The impact of western culture on Jewish life -- A Sephardic-Oriental diaspora -- The rise of Jewish life in America -- False dawn in the east: Alexander II and the era of "enlightenment" -- Russian twilight: the era of pogroms and May Laws -- A migration of east European Jewry: 1881-1914 -- The onset of modern antisemitism -- The mutation of racism -- The rise of Zionism -- The evolution of Jewish radicalism: Tsarist Russia -- Socialist "internationalism" in western Europe: the trauma of World War I -- The triumph of Bolshevism -- The Balfour Declaration and the Jewish National Home -- The legacy of progressivism: immigrant Jewry in the United States -- Successor states and minority guarantees: 1919-1939 -- The triumph of east European fascism -- A final symbiosis of Jewish and western culture -- A climatic onslaught of postwar antisemitism -- The triumph of Nazism -- The quest for sanctuary: 1933-1939 -- The Holocaust of European Jewry -- The final solution and the struggle for Jewish survival -- The birth of Israel -- Eastern Jewry in the postwar: a failed convalescence -- A precarious revival in western Europe -- The Jews of British Commonwealth -- A Latin Israel in the southern hemisphere -- The efflorescence of American-Jewish community -- The Jewish state and world Jewry -- Israel, the United States, and the struggle for Soviet Jewry.

ISBN:

9780375414978
0375414975

LCCN:

2004048814

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

WAPD715 -- Sheldon Public Library (Sheldon)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)