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The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism
"An excellent, comprehensive, and accessible overview of the major trends, tensions, and transformations in Jewish history. This volume, consisting of 37 readable essays by different authors, places Jews and Judaism clearly in the context of the world around them. This is a great starting point for undergraduates and adult students of Jewish history." Edited by an international authority in modern Jewish history and thought, Alan Levenson has assembled a collection of essays on Jews and Judaism from Ancient Israel to 2010. He chose a wonderful combination of veteran and emerging scholars. Their essays are written with clarity, intelligence, and the most recent research. Essay after essay is accessible yet scholarly. A fascinating and comprehensive collection.
—David Ariel, President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
—Marc Lee Raphael, College of William and Mary
Alan T. Levenson (Author)
9781405196376, Wiley
Hardback, published 19 April 2012
704 pages
25.4 x 18 x 3.9 cm, 1.234 kg
“Consequently, this book can serve as a useful addition for undergraduates collections on Judaism and Jewish history and as an introductory guide for advanced students. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries.” (Choice, 1 December 2012)
The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism presents a panoramic and comprehensive overview of the major aspects of Jewish life and culture, from the biblical period through to contemporary times. A collection of outstanding contributions from leading experts presents the latest scholarship on a range of questions relating to Jews, Jewish history, Judaism, folk practices, politics, economic structure, the relationship of Judaism to Christianity, and the manifold participation of Jews in general culture through various times and geographical locales. In addition, the book explores Jewish historiography and the lives of ordinary people, the achievements of Jewish women, and the sustained interaction of Jews within the environments they inhabited. In exploring the major periods and themes of Jewish history and the history of Judaism, the volume features a wide range of contemporary approaches that demonstrate the maturation of Jewish studies. Special attention is accorded to underrepresented eras, including the early modern and post-1945 periods of Jewish history in all their major dimensions. More contentious scholarly issues – such as the relationship of Ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible, or the nature of Zionism diaspora and its implications for contemporary Israel – feature multiple essays that reveal varied points of view. Lively and informative, this essential single-volume reference reflects our current state of knowledge on the evolution of Jewish life and culture, from its ancient origins to the modern age.
Notes on Contributors ix Preface xvii Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1 Part I Ancient Israel 13 1 What Is the Hebrew Bible? 15 2 How “Historical” Is Ancient Israel? 25 3 Priests and Levites in the Hebrew Bible 35 4 How Unique Was Israelite Prophecy? 53 5 Judaism after the Exile: The Later Books of the Bible 70 6 Translation: The Biblical Legacy to Judaism 83 Part II From Ancient Israel to Rabbinic Jewry 99 7 Jews in the Land During the Second Temple Period 101 8 Jews in Egypt: The Special Case of the Septuagint 121 9 Early Christianity in a Jewish Context 142 10 The Babylonian Consolidation of Rabbinic Judaism 156 Part III The Medieval World: Jews in Two Cultures 167 11 Jews in Christian Europe: Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages 169 12 The Jews in the Medieval Arabic-Speaking World 207 13 Turning Point: The Spanish Expulsion 224 14 Medieval Jewish Mysticism 244 Part IV the Early Modern Period (sixteenth–eighteenth Centuries) 257 15 Judaism and Science in the Age of Discovery 259 16 A History of Hasidism: Origins and Developments 277 17 Jews and Judaism in the Early Modern New World: Central and North America 291 18 The Jews of the Ottoman Empire 309 Part V The Modern Period 325 19 How Jews Modernized: The Western Nations 327 20 The Zionist Movement and the Path to Statehood 343 21 The Jews in the Land of the Russian Tsars 361 22 The Great Migration: 1881–1924 381 23 Polish Jewry between the World Wars 393 24 Organized Movements of American Judaism: From 1880 to World War II 409 25 Paths of Modernity: Jewish Women in Central Europe 422 26 Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Hostility 441 Part VI Jews and Judaism Since the Holocaust and the Birth of Israel 459 27 The Existential Crisis of the Holocaust 461 28 American Jews and the Jewish State 476 29 Judaism(s) in Contemporary America 489 30 Traditional Judaism in the Twenty-First Century 514 31 Contemporary American Jewish Culture 529 32 Israeli Culture from 1948 to the Present 548 33 The Israeli Economy 571 34 Ethnic Diversity in Israel 586 Part VII Special Topics 601 35 The World of Jewish Music 603 36 American Jewry’s Identification with Israel: Problems and Prospects 619 37 The Jewish Holy Days 643 Index 661
Frederick E. Greenspahn
Ehud Ben Zvi
Stephen A. Geller
Jonathan St€okl
Daniel C. Snell
Leonard Greenspoon
Steven Werlin
Peg Kershenbaum
Julie Galambush
Shai Secunda
Eva Haverkamp
Norman (Noam) Stillman
Jane S. Gerber
Hartley Lachter
Joseph M. Davis
Gadi Sagiv
Dean Phillip Bell
Yaron Ayalon
Carsten Schapkow
Brian Amkraut
Jarrod Tanny
Jessica Cooperman
Sean Martin
Michael R. Cohen
Kerry Wallach
Richard S. Levy
Peter Haas
David Bamberger
Dana Evan Kaplan
Mark I. Dunaevsky
Ted Merwin
Keren Rubinstein
Paul Rivlin
Ari Ariel
Marsha Bryan Edelman
Laurence J. Silberstein
Stanley Schachter
Subject Areas: Religion & beliefs [HR]
