Jewish history in 100 nutshells
Concise, popular presentation of the essence of Jewish history and religion for the general reader
History
xvi, 343 pages ; 24 cm
9781568211794, 1568211791
30437745
1. Abraham and the Patriarchs
2. Moses
3. The Ten Commandments and the Revelation at Sinai
4. The Hebrew Bible
5. Archaeology and the Bible
6. Saul and the Establishment of the Kingdom
7. King David
8. Solomon and the First Temple
9. The Divided Kingdom
10. Amos and Hosea
11. Isaiah and Hezekiah
12. The Fall of Jerusalem
13. Jeremiah
14. The Babylonian Exile and the Return
15. Ezra and Nehemiah
16. Hellenism
17. Judah Maccabee
18. The Hasmonean State
19. Herod the Great
20. The Pharisees and Sadducees and Hillel and Shammai
21. The Diaspora during the Roman Empire
22. Jesus
23. Peter, Paul, and Early Christianity
24. The Dead Sea Scrolls
25. The Jewish War (66-70 C.E.)
26. The Destruction of the Temple
27. The Fall of Masada
28. Yohanan ben Zakkai and the Sanhedrin at Yavneh
29. Bar Kokhba
30. Rabbi Judah the Prince and the Redaction of the Mishnah
31. Constantine and Christianity
32. The Jews of Babylon
33. The Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds
34. Mohammed
35. The Karaites
36. The Jews in the Muslim World before 1400
37. The Jews of Italy
38. The Jews of Spain
39. A 12th-Century Zionist: Judah HaLevi
40. The Legacy of Maimonides
41. Nahmanides and the 1263 Disputation
42. The Bible of the Jewish Mystics: The Zohar
43. The Jews of England: Massacre and Expulsion
44. Rashi
45. The Inquisition and Expulsion from Spain
46. The Marranos. 47. The Jews of Medieval Germany
48. Hebrew Printing
49. Martin Luther and the Jews
50. The Jews of Amsterdam
51. Isaac Abrabanel
52. The Jews of Venice and the First Ghetto
53. Kabbalists at Safed
54. Joseph Caro and the Shulhan Arukh
55. The Excommunication of Spinoza
56. Jews Arrive in the New World
57. The Chmielnicki Massacres
58. The Shabbetai Zevi Affair
59. The Development of Hasidism
60. Moses Mendelssohn and the Jewish Enlightenment
61. Emancipation
62. Religious Responses to Modern Challenges
63. The Pale of Settlement
64. The House of Rothschild
65. Sir Moses Montefiore and 19th-Century Jewish History
66. Early Zionist Voices
67. Modern Antisemitism
68. The Pogroms of 1881
69. The Beginnings of Aliyah
70. The Dreyfus Affair
71. Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State, and the First Zionist Congress
72. The Emergence of American Conservative Judaism
73. The Kishinev Pogroms
74. The Uganda Controversy
75. The Beilis Blood-Libel Case
76. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and the Emergence of Modern Hebrew
77. Tel Aviv and Deganyah: A New City and a New Type of Community
78. The Balfour Declaration
79. The British Mandate over Palestine: "The White Paper Regime"
80. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
81. The Open Door Closes
82. Birobidzhan: The Soviet Union's "Jewish Autonomous Region"
83. Mordecai Kaplan and Reconstructionist Judaism. 84. Kristallnacht: The Night of the Broken Glass
85. The Wannsee Conference: Genocide Becomes State Policy
86. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
87. The Exodus 1947 and Illegal Aliyah
88. The UN Partition Resolution
89. The Birth of the State of Israel
90. Jerusalem and Israel's War of Independence
91. "Operation Magic Carpet" and "Operation Ezra and Nehemiah"
92. German Restitution to Victims of Nazism
93. The "Doctors' Plot": Prelude to Stalin's "Final Solution"?
94. The Sinai Campaign
95. The Eichmann Trial
96. The Six-Day War
97. The Yom Kippur War
98. Peace with Egypt
99. The Ordination of Female Rabbis
100. The Falashas Arrive in Israel