The Jews by John Efron,Steven Weitzman,Matthias Lehmann -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Copyright CONTENTS List of Figures List of Maps Preface to the Third Edition Publisher’s Acknowledgments Acknowledgments Notes on Spelling and Transliteration 1. Ancient Israel and Other Ancestors

Searching for Israel’s Origins BCE and CE: The Religious Background of How We Think About History The Origins and Meaning(s) of the Name Israel The Biblical World in Brief A Confirmable Chronology of Ancient Israelite History Fitting the Bible Into History

Political Awakenings

The Search for Solomon’s Temple

Family Ties

Biblical Archaeology: A Controversial Quest

Surviving Mesopotamian Domination

Sex and Death in Ancient Israel

The Early History of God

Where Does God Come From? From the Historical Israel Back to Biblical Israel

2. Becoming the People of the Book

Restoration? Intermarriage: Biblical Arguments for and Against Stage 1: The Composition of Biblical Literature On Why the Bible Is Not a Book How Does the Hebrew Bible Differ From Other Ancient Near Eastern Texts? A Snapshot of the Hebrew Bible in the Making Stage 2: The Canonization of the Bible A Crash Course in the Jewish Bible Biblical Stories the Bible Doesn’t Tell Modern Encounters With Mount Sinai The Bible and the Birth of Jewish Culture Five Questions About the Jewish Bible

3. Jews and Greeks

From Alexander to Ptolemaic Egypt Exile or Diaspora? Seleucid Rule and the Maccabean Revolt Did Antisemitism Originate in Hellenistic Egypt? Is Martyrdom a Jewish Invention? Forgotten Heroines of Hanukkah: Were the True Heroes of the Maccabean Revolt Women? Emerging Religious Differences Answering Some Questions About the Dead Sea Scrolls The Afterlife of Jewish Hellenistic Culture

4. Between Caesar and God

Roman Rule and Its Jewish Allies The Jews in Roman Eyes Resisting Rome—and the Aftermath Who Were the Zealots? The Mass Suicide at Masada Letters From a Rebel

Jewish Life Before and After the Temple’s Destruction Christianity’s Emergence From Jewish Culture

The Quest for the Historical Jesus The Origin of Satan From the Sabbath to Sunday Did the Jews Kill Jesus?

The Transition to Late Antiquity

5. From Temple to Talmud

The Late Antique Context of Rabbinic Judaism

Jewish Life in a Christianized Roman Context

Converting the Land of Israel Into the Christian Holy Land

Jewish Life in Sasanian Babylonia

A Synagogue in a War Zone Putting the Rabbis Into the Picture

The Emergence of Rabbinic Culture

What Became of the Priests After the Temple’s Destruction?

The Age of the Mishnah

The Other Ancient Jewish Language

The Babylonian Talmud and Beyond

Wading Into the Sea of Talmud Arguing With God The Impact of the Rabbis on Jewish Culture A Who’s Who of the Ancient Rabbis Cracking the Bible’s Code Rabbinically A Brief Introduction to Jewish Prayer

6. Under the Crescent

The Jews and Early Islam

Muhammad and the Jews The Umayyad Caliphate and the “Pact of Umar”

The Qur’an and the Jews The Abbasid Caliphate and the Babylonian Geonim The Gaonic Standardization of Jewish Prayer Egypt, Palestine, and the Karaite Challenge The “Golden Age” of Muslim Spain The Cairo Genizah Medieval Messiahs Jewish Thought in the Islamic Middle Ages How to Become a Jewish Philosopher in the Middle Ages Jewish Lives Under Islamic Rule Jewish Slave Trading

7. Under the Cross

From Roman Law to Royal Serfdom

Medieval Charters and Royal Authority The Thirteenth Century

Conversion to Judaism Ashkenaz

Jewish Communities in Northern Europe Rabbinic Culture in Medieval Ashkenaz The Ashkenazi Pietists Crusades

A Jewish Polemic Against Christianity

A Disastrous Fourteenth Century

Sefarad

Life on the Frontier

The Blood Libel and Other Lethal Accusations

Sefarad and the Rise of Kabbalah Toward Expulsion

Banning Jewish Philosophy A People Apart? In the Byzantine Empire

8. A Jewish Renaissance

Iberian Jewry Between Inquisition and Expulsion The Hebrew Printing Revolution Sephardim and Ashkenazim The Sephardi Jews of the Ottoman Empire Ottoman Safed in the Sixteenth Century The Jews of the Moroccan Mellah Coffee and Kabbalah Between Ghetto and Renaissance: The Jews of Early Modern Italy A Jewish Renaissance Christian Humanism, the Protestant Reformation, and the Jews

9. New Worlds, East and West

In the Nobles’ Republic: Jews in Early Modern Eastern Europe The Jewish Community in Poland-Lithuania Early Modern Ashkenazi Culture Keeping Time in Early Modern Europe The Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648), Mercantilism, and the Rise of the “Court Jews” Glickl of Hameln and Her Zikhroynes Questions of Identity: Conversos and the “Port Jews” of the Atlantic World Rich and Poor The Lost Tribes of Israel Shabbatai Zvi: A Jewish Messiah Converts to Islam

10. The State of the Jews, the Jews and the State

Changing Boundaries in the Eighteenth Century Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia and the Jews Jews and Boxing in Georgian England Jews Through Jewish and Non-Jewish Eyes Jews and the French Revolution

Napoleon’s Jewish Policy

The Anglophone World An Old Language for a New Society: Judah Monis’s Hebrew Grammar Jewish Emancipation in Southern and Central Europe Status of the Jews Under Ottoman Rule Russian Jewry and the State

11. Modern Transformations

Partitions of Poland Frankism Hasidism Mitnaggdism The Volozhin Yeshiva Israel Salanter and the Musar Movement Incipient Modernity in Sephardic Amsterdam The Haskalah in Central Europe

Moses Mendelssohn

Educational Reforms in Berlin

Moses Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem

Literature of the Berlin Haskalah The Sephardic Haskalah The Haskalah in Eastern Europe

The Galician Haskalah The Russian Haskalah

Haskalah and Language Wissenschaft des Judentums (Academic Study of Judaism) Sholem Aleichem The Rise of Modern Jewish Historiography Linguistic Border Crossing: The Creation of Esperanto The Rise of Reform Judaism Jewish Women in Domestic Service The New Israelite Hospital in Hamburg

Rabbinical Conferences

Neo-Orthodoxy

Positive-Historical Judaism

Religious Reforms Beyond Germany New Synagogues and the Architecture of Emancipation

12. The Politics of Being Jewish

A Shtetl Woman The Move to Cities Modern Antisemitism

The Jewish Question Antisemitism in Germany Antisemitism in Austria Antisemitism in France Antisemitism in Italy Antisemitism in Russia

The Paths Jews Took

The Rise of Modern Jewish Politics Jewish Socialism Jewish Nationalism Philanthropy and Acculturation The Pursuit of Happiness: Coming to America Uptown Jews: The Rise of the German Jews in America

Bertha Pappenheim and the League of Jewish Women

Downtown Jews: Eastern European Jewish Immigrants

A Meal to Remember: “The Trefa Banquet”

13. A World Upended

World War I

Jews on the Eastern Front Jews on the Western Front British Jewry

The Jews of Interwar Europe

Interwar Jewry: The Numbers Soviet Russia Between the Wars Poland Between the Wars Romania Between the Wars Hungary Between the Wars The Balkans Between the Wars

Jewish Cultural Life in Interwar Central Europe

Interwar Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany Interwar Jewish Culture in Poland

Jews in Austrian Culture Miss Judea Pageant Zionist Diplomacy Between the Wars Sporting Jews

Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky and Revisionist Zionism

Zionist Culture

Zionism and the Arabs Mandate Palestine Between the Wars Building Zionist Culture Tensions With the Palestinian Arabs The Jews of the Eastern Levant and Muslim Lands

14. The Holocaust

The Jews in Hitler’s Worldview Phase I: The Persecution of German Jewry (1933–1939)

Responses of German Jews German Public Opinion The Economics of Persecution The Night of Broken Glass

Phase II: The Destruction of European Jewry (1939–1945)

The Ghettos

The Holocaust and Gender

Mass Shootings in the Soviet Union The Extermination Camps Jewish Resistance

Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto The Model Concentration Camp: Theresienstadt

Awareness of Genocide and Rescue Attempts

Anne Frank

15. Into the Present

In the Aftermath of the Holocaust

The Rise of the State of Israel

Exodus 1947 In the State of Israel

The Canaanites Israel’s Wars

The Eichmann Trial At Home in America

Suburbanization The Impact of the Holocaust

Rebelling Against American-Jewish Suburbia The Jews and the Blues

American-Jewish Cultures American Judaisms American Jews and the State of Israel

Eastern Europe After the Shoah

Soviet Union Poland Romania Hungary

Western Europe After the Shoah

France

Jews and the Invention of Postmodernism in Postwar France

Germany Other Western European Countries

The Jews of the Southern Hemisphere Contemporary Antisemitism

The Road to the Future

Postscript

Timeline of Jewish History Glossary Index

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