TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sachar, Howard Morley
PY  - 1990
DA  - 1990//
TI  - course of modern Jewish history: [the classic history of the Jewish people, from the eighteenth century to the present day]
ET  - New rev. ed., 1. Vintage Books ed
PB  - Vintage Books
CY  - New York
KW  - Jews
KW  - History
AB  - Jew as non-European -- Glimmering of dawn in the West -- Emancipation in the West -- Incarceration: the Jews of Eastern Europe -- Triumph of liberalism -- Jewish economic life and the Frankfurt tradition -- Impact of Western culture on Jewish life -- Rise of Jewish life in the new world -- False dawn in the East -- Jewish humanism in Eastern Europe -- Emergence of anti-Semitism -- Beginning of the end for Russian Jewry -- Rise of Zionism -- Growth of Jewish socialism -- Great migration and settlement in America -- Russian Jewry's "liberal" tradition in America -- Jews of Eastern Europe between the wars -- Palestine mandate -- Impact of the Jews on Western culture -- Onslaught of Nazism -- Europe Judenrein -- Birth of Israel -- Eastern Europe in the postwar -- Precarious revival in democratic Europe -- Antipodal Jewish "third world" -- Growth of the American-Jewish community -- State of Israel -- Growth of the Israeli nation -- Greater Israel
SN  - 0679727469
LA  - English
N1  - Howard M. Sachar
ID  - 276619625
ER  -