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A short history of the Jews / Michael Brenner ; translated by Jeremiah Riemer.

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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.

9780691143514 (hbk.)

069114351X (hbk.)

xiv, 421 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 22 cm.

Foreword -- 1: From Ur to Canaan: a wandering people -- 2: From exile back home: priests and prophets -- 3: From Hebrew into Greek: disdain and admiration -- 4: From Modiin to Jerusalem: a Jewish state stands and falls -- 5: From Jerusalem to Yavneh: the diaspora legitimates itself -- 6: From Medina to Baghdad: under Islamic rule -- 7: From Sura to Cordoba: sepharad-Jewish culture on the Iberian peninsula -- 8: From Lucca to Mainz: ashkenaz-the roots of central European Jewry -- 9: From Lisbon to Venice: expulsions and their aftermath -- 10: From Khaybar to Rome: messianic and mystical movements -- 11: From West to East: a new center in Poland -- 12: From Dessau to Berlin: rural Jews, court Jews, and enlightenment philosophers -- 13: From the ghetto to civil society: political emancipation and religious reform -- 14: From Posen to New Orleans: starting over in America -- 15: From the shtetl to the Lower East Side: East European Jewish dreams and American realities -- 16: From Budapest to Tev Aviv: an "old new land" in Zion -- 17: From Tâetouan to Teheran: the Europeanization of Jews in the Islamic world -- 18: From Czernowitz to Cernauti: political crisis and cultural florescence between the wars -- 19: From everywhere to Auschwitz: annihilation -- 20: From Julius Streicher's farm to the kibbutz: the Jewish world after the Holocaust -- Appendix: Jewish history in numbers -- Further reading -- Picture credits -- Index of names -- Index of place names.

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