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List of contents
VOLUME 1
1. Ancient ISRAEL AND OTHER ANCESTORS 2. BECOMING THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK 3.
JEWS and GREEKS 4. BETWEEN CAESAR AND GOD 5. TALMUDIC TRANSFORMATIONS 6.
UNDER THE CRESCENT 7. UNDER THE CROSS 8. A JEWISH RENAISSANCE 9. NEW WORLDS, EAST AND WEST
VOLUME 2
1. The State of the Jews, the Jews and the State 2. Modern Transformations 3. The Politics of Being Jewish 4. A World Upended The Holocaust 5. The Holocaust 6. Into the Present
About the author
John Efron is the Koret Professor of Jewish History at the University of California at Berkeley. He specializes in the cultural and social history of German Jewry. He is the author of
German Jewry and the Allure of the Sephardic (2016)
All Consuming: Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of Meat (2025).
Matthias B. Lehmann is Professor of Jewish History at the University of Cologne, where he directs the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies. His publications include
The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century (2022),
Emissaries from the Holy Land (2014), and the coedited volume
Jews and the Mediterranean (2020).
Steven Weitzman is a scholar of ancient Judaism and serves at the University of Pennsylvania as the Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures and as the Ella Darivoff Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. His publications include
The Origin of the Jews: the Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age (2017), awarded a National Jewish Book Award, and the soon to appear
A History of Signs and Wonders: the Ten Plagues Then, Now and at the End of the World.
Summary
These accessibly written volumes examine the major periods of Jewish history around the world, from their distant origins in antiquity through the beginnings of the modern period and the emergence of secular culture, and further to the eighteenth century to the present day.
