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The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History - Softcover

Flohr, Paul R.Mendes-

 
9780195026320: The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History

Synopsis

This second edition is an expanded and diverse collection of primary materials that trace Jewish experience in the modern period and illustrate the transformation of Jewish religion and culture and identity beginning in the 17th and 18th centuries and ending in 1948.

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Review

`A useful teaching tool, indeed the best available for the subject'Journal of Modern History

`A fascinating presentation executed through the skill and acumen of its editors, and should be compulsory reading for all those―Jew and Gentile alike―who are concerned with a fuller understanding of the historical forces that moulded the Jew in an alien world.'Jewish Quarterly

About the Author

Paul Mendes-Flohr is the author of From Mysticism to Dialogue, Martin Buber and the Transformation of German Social Thought (Wayne State UP, 1989), Divided Passions, Jewish Intellectuals and the Experience of Modernity (Wayne State UP, 1990). Jehuda Reinharz is the author of Chaim Weizmann, 2 vols., (OUP NY, 1985, 1993).

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