The Modern Jewish Experience : : A Reader's Guide / / ed. by Jack Wertheimer.

The pace of scholarly research and academic publication in fields of Judaica has quickened dramatically in the second half of the twentieth century. The major consumers and producers of this new scholarship are found in Jewish Studies programs that have proliferated at institutions of higher learnin...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1993]
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Year of Publication:1993
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Part I. A GUIDE TO FIELDS OF STUDY
  • Area Studies
  • 1. The Jews in Early Modern Central and Western Europe
  • 2. Polish Jewry to the Partitions
  • 3. The Jews in Imperial Russia
  • 4. Soviet Jewry
  • 5. The Jews of Austria-Hungary
  • 6. The Jews of North Africa and the Middle East
  • 7. American Jewish History
  • 8. Jews in Commonwealth Countries
  • 9. Israeli Society and Culture
  • 10. Latin American Jewry
  • Social and Political Issues
  • 11. The Traditional Jewish Community
  • 12. Jewish Emancipation
  • 13. Secular Jewish Culture
  • 14. Modern Jewish Social History
  • 15. The Mass Migration of East European Jews
  • 16. Modern Antisemitism and Jewish Responses
  • 17. The Holocaust
  • Religious and Ideological Movements
  • 18. Hasidism and Its Opponents
  • 19. Religious Movements in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe
  • 20. Modern Jewish Religious Movements
  • 21. Modern Jewish Politics
  • 22. Zionist Ideology
  • 23. Religious Culture and Politics in Israel
  • Disciplinary Perspectives
  • 24. Modern Jewish Literature
  • 25. Jewish Art in the Modern Era
  • 26. Jewish Music in the Modern Era
  • 27. Modern Jewish Thought
  • 28. Modern Jewish Demography
  • 29. American and Canadian Jewish Sociology
  • Part II. TEACHING RESOURCES
  • An Annotated Guide to Major Reference Works
  • Sample Syllabi for Survey Courses on the Modern Jewish Experience Taught in Diverse Linguistic and National Settings
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  • Index of Authors