Sachar, Abram Leon
A History of the Jews Abram Leon Sachar - New York Alfred A. Knopf 1966 - 478 p
Includes index
The cast of characters --
The origins of the Hebrews --
The Hebrews enter Palestine --
The growth of national consciousness --
A house divided against itself --
The prophets : the living Hebrew conscience --
The rise of Judaism --
Life and labour in biblical Palestine --
The meeting of Hellenism and Hebraism --
The end of the Jewish state --
The rise of Christianity --
The development of the Talmud --
The new Moslem world --
The golden age in Moslem Spain --
Four bloody centuries in Christian Europe --
The decline and fall of Jewish life in Spain --
Havens of refuge --
Degeneration --
The Jew in the mediaeval world --
The end of the Jewish Middle Ages --
The fall of the mediaeval citadel --
The triumph of liberalism --
Factors in American Jewish history --
The Russian Jewish nightmare --
Cultural and religious changes --
The revival of anti-Semitism --
Zionism --
From Sarajevo to San Remo, 1914-20 --
Europe between the wars --
The western hemisphere in the twentieth century --
The epic of Palestine --
World War II and after --
The new state of Israel.
A complete history of thirty centuries of Judaism, with emphasis on economic, social and environmental factors and religious and philosophical development. For other editions, see Author Catalog.
43711
Jews
909.0974924 Sac 15
A History of the Jews Abram Leon Sachar - New York Alfred A. Knopf 1966 - 478 p
Includes index
The cast of characters --
The origins of the Hebrews --
The Hebrews enter Palestine --
The growth of national consciousness --
A house divided against itself --
The prophets : the living Hebrew conscience --
The rise of Judaism --
Life and labour in biblical Palestine --
The meeting of Hellenism and Hebraism --
The end of the Jewish state --
The rise of Christianity --
The development of the Talmud --
The new Moslem world --
The golden age in Moslem Spain --
Four bloody centuries in Christian Europe --
The decline and fall of Jewish life in Spain --
Havens of refuge --
Degeneration --
The Jew in the mediaeval world --
The end of the Jewish Middle Ages --
The fall of the mediaeval citadel --
The triumph of liberalism --
Factors in American Jewish history --
The Russian Jewish nightmare --
Cultural and religious changes --
The revival of anti-Semitism --
Zionism --
From Sarajevo to San Remo, 1914-20 --
Europe between the wars --
The western hemisphere in the twentieth century --
The epic of Palestine --
World War II and after --
The new state of Israel.
A complete history of thirty centuries of Judaism, with emphasis on economic, social and environmental factors and religious and philosophical development. For other editions, see Author Catalog.
43711
Jews
909.0974924 Sac 15