History of the Jews in Modern Times

Lloyd Gartner provides a vivid description of the changing fortunes of the Jewish communities of the Old World--Europe, the Middle East, and beyond--and their gradual expansion into the New World of the Americas. The book begins in 1650, when the Jewish population had fallen to roughly 1.25 million, less than one-sixth of its peak at the start of the Christian era. Gartner leads us through the traditions, religious laws, communities, and their interactions with their neighbors, through the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and into Emancipation, the dark shadows of anti-Semitism, and the Second World War, bringing us up to the present with Zionism and the founding of Israel. Eminently readable and impeccably researched, the book is a superb introduction to one of the central threads of modern history.


Author: Lloyd P. Gartner
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 11/30/2000
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780192892591

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2001 pg. 566

About the Author

Lloyd Gartner is Professor of European Jewish History Emeritus at the University of Tel-Aviv.

This title is not returnable