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Publisher
Thinking Man Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Did the Israelites' exodus from Egypt really happen? There's evidence that it did. Traveling from the United States to Israel and England, filmmaker Timothy Mahoney sifts through archaeological and historical clues, as well as comments from scholars and experts, to determine the truth as he builds a new case for an ancient, and often controversial, story."--
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus's prophecy - "The Kingdom of God is at hand!" - they were, in their own eyes, history's last generation. But in history's eyes, they became the first Christians. In this electrifying social and intellectual...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Book of Revolutions unveils the epic saga of ancient Israel as the visionary legacy of inspired authors in different times and places, and the Torah as an emblem of pluralistic belief born of three revolutionary moments in history"--
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The twentieth century has seen both the greatest triumph of Jewish history and its greatest tragedy: the birth of the nation of Israel, and the state-sponsored genocide of the Holocaust. A People Apart is the first study to examine the role played by the Jews themselves, across the whole of Europe, during the century and a half leading up to these events. David Vital explores the Jews' troubled relationship with Europe, documenting the struggles of...
Author
Publisher
KTAV Pub. House, in association with the American Jewish Committee
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Organized in 34 units, this volume is aimed at the general reader desiring a core course covering the main contours of Jewish history. Each unit is accompanied by textual readings, questions for discussion, and additional bibliography. The following chapters relate to antisemitism: The Church and the Jews [About the Early Church.] (115-125); Jewry and Islam (126-139); The Crusades and the Jews (164-175); Jews and Christian Spain (188-197); East European...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Demonstrating how the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible represents the first, and one of the most elaborate, projects of peoplehood, Wright tells the dramatic story of the Bible's origins in relation to 1, a longstanding political division between North and South (Israel and Judah) and 2 the traumatic experience of defeat" --
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Three millennia of Jewish history is brought to life in a celebration of Jewish humanistic and moral heritage. Follow the Jewish people from the heights of Sinai to the shores of the Dead Sea, from a Greek amphitheater in Delphi to the Forum of ancient Rome, out of the ashes of concentration camps to the rebuilt cities and villages of Israel--Container.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Part reportage, part memoir, a nationally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post since 1976 takes readers on a intimate journey through the history of Europe's Jews, while delving into his own Jewish history and sharing stories of his own relatives and his American boyhood.
"A very personal journey through Jewish history (and Cohen's own), and a passionate defense of Israel's legitimacy. Richard Cohen's book is part reportage, part memoir--an...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Examining the entire span of Jewish history through the lens of thirty pivotal moments in the Jewish people's experience from biblical times through the present, Turning Points in Jewish History provides "the big picture": both a broad and a deep understanding of the Jewish historical experience"--
Author
Publisher
Pathfinder
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"During the opening years of the 21st century, anti-Semitic venom and incidents of violent assault on Jews have begun spreading. They are not a historical aberration. They are fueled by today's capitalist crises and fracturing of the post-World War II imperialist "order," described in recent decades as "globalization." At every turning point in history-from antiquity through feudalism, to capitalism's rise and the imperialist death throes of the past...
Author
Publisher
Ktav Pub. House
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
This survey of Jewish history and thought spans biblical times through the twentieth century and the establishment of the State of Israel, covering developments that have shaped Judaism, Jewish learning, Jewish experience, and the Jewish people. Based on the author's experience teaching Jewish history, this survey is presented in an outline form and contains charts and other learning aids.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: What does it mean to be a Jew? How does one begin to answer so extensive a question? In this insightful and completely updated tome, esteemed rabbi and bestselling author Joseph Telushkin helps answer the question of what it means to be a Jew, in the largest sense. Widely recognized as one of the most respected and indispensable reference books on Jewish life, culture, tradition, and religion, Jewish Literacy covers every essential...
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