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This accessibly written volume examines 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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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 Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures and as 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 the National Jewish Book Award, and the soon-to-appear
Disasters of Biblical Proportions: The Ten Plagues Then, Now and at the End of the World (2026).
Summary
This accessibly written volume examines 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.
