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This title in other editionsA History of the Jews in the Modern Worldby Howard Morle Sachar
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years.
Tracking their fate from Western Europes age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet and post-imperialist Islamic upheavals of the twenty-first century, Sachar applies his renowned narrative skill to the central role of the Jews in many of the most impressive achievements of modern civilization: whether in the rise of economic capitalism or of political socialism; in the discoveries of theoretical physics or applied medicine; in “higher” literary criticism or mass communication and popular entertainment. As his account unfolds and moves from epoch to epoch, from continent to continent, from Europe to the Americas and the Middle East, Sachar evaluates communities that, until lately, have been underestimated in the perspective of Jewish and world historyamong them, Jews of Sephardic provenance, of the Moslem regions, and of Africa. By the same token, Sachar applies a masters hand in describing and deciphering the Jews unique exposure and functional usefulness to totalitarian movementsfascist, Nazi, and Stalinist. In the process, he shines an unsparing light on the often widely dissimilar behavior of separate European peoples, and on separate Jewish populations, during the Holocaust. A distillation of the authors lifetime of scholarly research and teaching experience, A History of the Jews in the Modern World provides a source of unsurpassed intellectual richness for university students and educated laypersons alike. Review:"In this monumental and complex narrative, successor to his distinguished 1958 The Course of Modern Jewish History (substantially revised in 1990), Sachar, generally acknowledged as the preeminent scholar of modern Jewish history, proves himself to be not only a superb historian, but a compelling storyteller. The scope of this project is both exhilarating and daunting, including western and eastern Europe, America and the Middle East from the 17th century to the present; Sachar's major themes include the history of anti-Semitism, the development of the nation state, the rise of European fascism and the immigration of Jews throughout Europe and to the Americas. Sachar has constructed this history with such adroitness that it is best read as a sweeping chronicle of not just Jewish but world history. As always, Sachar's informal, almost conversational style is both inviting and accessible, whether sketching out the complicated position of Jews in Brazil during the country's fight for independence from Portugal in 1824 or demonstrating how Jewish religious thinking was vital in the advancement of modern medicine. For both the general reader and the scholar, this is an important addition to the literature on both Jewish and Western history and culture." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Book News Annotation:Historian Sachar writes of the history of the Jews over the past 400 years, from Western Europe's 17th century age of mercantilism, to the 21st century struggle for Soviet Jewry. While he addresses the rise of Zionism and the birth of the State of Israel, he does not provide a comprehensive examination of the independent nation, explaining that it deserves its own separate treatment. He includes less common subjects such as the Sephardic-Oriental diaspora, and the Jews of Africa and of Moslem regions, and concludes with a prognosis for the 21st century.
Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) About the AuthorHoward M. Sachar is the author of fifteen books and the editor of the thirty-nine-volume The Rise of Israel: A Documentary History. He is Professor of Modern History Emeritus at George Washington University.
Table of ContentsForeword
IThe Jews as Non-European IIA Glimmering of Dawn in the West IIIAn Ambivalent Emancipation in the West IVIncarceration: The Jews of Tsarist Russia VThe Triumph of Emancipation in the West VIJews in an Emancipated Economy VIIThe Impact of Western Culture on Jewish Life VIIIA Sephardic-Oriental Diaspora IXThe Rise of Jewish Life in America XFalse Dawn in the East: Alexander II and the Era of “Enlightenment” XIRussian Twilight: The Era of Pogroms and May Laws XIIA Migration of East European Jewry: 1881–1914 XIIIThe Onset of Modern Antisemitism XIVThe Mutation of Racism XVThe Rise of Zionism XVIThe Evolution of Jewish Radicalism: Tsarist Russia XVIISocialist “Internationalism” in Western Europe: The Trauma of World War I XVIIIThe Triumph of Bolshevism XIXThe Balfour Declaration and the Jewish National Home XXThe Legacy of Progressivism: Immigrant Jewry in the United States XXISuccessor States and Minority Guarantees: 1919–1939 XXIIThe Triumph of East European Fascism XXIIIA Final Symbiosis of Jewish and Western Culture XXIVA Climatic Onslaught of Postwar Antisemitism XXVThe Triumph of Nazism XXVIThe Quest for Sanctuary 1933–1939 XXVIIThe Holocaust of European Jewry XXVIIIThe Final Solution and the Struggle for Jewish Survival XXIXThe Birth of Israel XXXEastern Jewry in the Postwar: A Failed Convalescence XXXIA Precarious Revival in Western Europe XXXIIThe Jews of the British Commonwealth XXXIIIA Latin Israel in the Soutern Hemisphere XXXIVThe Efflorescence of American-Jewish Community XXXVThe Jewish State and World Jewry XXXVIIsrael, the United States, and the Struggle for Soviet Jewry Afterword Bibliography Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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