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• ISBN: 0816012202
• ISBN: 9780816012206
• Physical Description: 287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
• Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Facts on File Publications, [1986]
• Copyright: ©1986

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Ancient Hebrew script / Ittai Tamari -- From Hebrew manuscripts to Hebrew printing / Ittai Tamari -- Modern Hebrew letter printing / Ittai Tamari -- Symbols in Jewish art : myths of creation / Ida Huberman -- Symbols in Jewish art : exile and redemption / Ida Huberman -- Symbols in Jewish art : the meeting of cultures / Ida Huberman -- Distinctive features of Jewish costume / Aviva Muller-Lancet -- Ritual and ceremonial aspects of Jewish dress / Aviva Muller-Lancet -- Costumes of Moroccan Jews / Aviva Muller-Lancet -- Costumes of Yemenite Jews / Aviva Muller-Lancet -- Costumes of Jews in the Middle East and Central Asia / Aviva Muller-Lancet -- Jewish paper-cuts / Giza Frankel -- Chronological chart of Jewish and world history.

Major themes in the history of the Jewish people / Shmuel Ettinger -- Ereẓ Israel in prehistoric times / Shlomo Bunimovitz -- Pre-Israelite Caanan / Shlomo Bunimovitz -- From the patriarchs to the Exodus / Shlomo Bunimovitz -- The period of settlement and of the judges / Shlomo Bunimovitz -- The kingdom : united and divided / Hava Katz, Shlomo Bunimovitz -- The Kingdom of Israel / Hava Katz, Shlomo Bunimovitz -- The Kingdom of Judah / Hava Katz, Shlomo Bunimovitz -- Desrtuction and exile / Hava Katz, Shlomo Bunimovitz -- The return to Zion / Menachem Mor, Israel Ronen -- Ereẓ Israel in the fourth and third centuries BCE / Menachem Mor, Israel Ronen -- Seleucid rule and the edicts of Antiochus / Menachem Mor, Israel Ronen -- The Hasmonean revolt and political independence / Menachem Mor, Israel Ronen -- The Hasmonean state / Menachem Mor, Israel Ronen -- Herod and his successors / Menachem Mor, Israel Ronen -- Leadership in Hasmonean and Roman times / Menachem Mor, Israel Ronen -- The great revolt / Menachem Mor, Israel Ronen -- The nation rallies after the destruction / Menachem Mor, Israel Ronen -- The Bar Kokhba Revolt / Menachem Mor, Israel Ronen -- Judah ha-Nasi and his era / Isaiah Gafni -- The Egyptian Jewish community in ancient times / Ada Aharoni -- The Jewish community in Babylonia / Isaiah Gafni -- Ereẓ Israel under Byzantine rule / Isaiah Gafni -- Ereẓ Israel under Arab rule / Editors -- Babylonia as a national center / Avraham Grossman.

Origins of the American Jewish community / Ruth Peleg -- Shaping the American Jewish community / Ruth Peleg -- 19th century Ereẓ Israel / Edna Elazari -- Foundations of Zionism in Ereẓ Israel / Edna Elazari -- Yemenite Jews and Ereẓ Israel / Yehuda Nini -- The British mandate and the Zionsits / Edna Elazari -- Aliyah during the 1920s / Edna Elazari -- Arab nationalism / Edna Elazari -- Jewish defense organizations / Edna Elazari -- Nazi anti-Semetic policy / Dan Michman -- Immigration and settlement in the 1930s / Edna Elazari -- The Arab uprising / Edna Elazari -- The Jewish economy in Palestine until 1939 / Edna Elazari -- The emergence of Hebrew culture in Ereẓ Israel / Edna Elazari -- Britain retreats from its support of Zionism / Edna Elazari -- The underground movements / Edna Elazari -- The Jews in the trap of Nazi rule / Dan Michman -- Life in the ghetto / Dan Michman -- The Holocaust / Dan Michman -- Rescue operations during the Holocaust / Dan Michman -- Jewish resistance in the Holocaust / Dan Michman -- Zionism and Aliyah from Muslim countries / Nissim Yosha -- Palestine during World War II / Edna Elazari -- The national institutions of the "state-in-the-making" / Edna Elazari -- The Yishuv takes up the struggle / Edna Elazari -- American Jewry's political activities / Ruth Peleg -- Establishing the state of Israel / Yossef Eshkol -- The Israeli war of independence (A) / Yossef Eshkol -- The Israeli war of independence (B) / Yossef Eshkol -- Building the new state / Yossef Eshkol -- Israel's first decade / Yossef Eshkol -- Defense in the first decade / Yossef Eshkol -- Economics and society in Israel's second decade / Yossef Eshkol -- From the Sinai Campaign to the Six-Day War / Yossef Eshkol -- Economics and society in Greater Israel (1967-1973) / Yossef Eshkol -- From the Six-Day War to the Yom Kippur War / Yossef Eshkol -- Peace with Egypt : war in Lebanon / Yossef Eshkol -- A decade of change (1974-1984) / Yossef Eshkol -- Arabs and other minorities in Israel / David Hacham -- Education and culture in Israel / Dan Ronen -- The Histadrut (General Federation of Labor) / Eli Avrahami -- The kibbutz / Eli Avrahami -- American Jewry in the mid-1980s / Ruth Peleg -- Jews in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe / Raphael Vago -- The Jewish people in the contemporary period / Simon Herman -- Jerusalem throughout the ages / Shlomo Shavit.

The encounter with Islam in Spain / Yom-Tov Assis -- Medieval European attitudes to the Jews / Itzhak Handelsman -- Ashkenaz in the 10th-13th centuries / Itzhak Handelsman -- Jews and Crusaders in Ereẓ Israel / Yael Katzir -- The Jews in Christian Spain / Yom-Tov Assis -- The expulsion of the Jews from Western Europe / Itzhak Handelsman -- The Jewish community of Poland up to the 18th century / Itzhak Handelsman -- Eastern Jewery after the expulsion from Spain / Nissim Yosha -- The Anusim / Itzhak Handelsman -- Anusim and Iberian Jews in the West / Abraham Gross -- 16th century Ereẓ Israel / Editors -- Messianism in Jewery / Itzhak Bezalel -- Shabbateanism / Itzhak Bezalel -- The community as the framework of Jewish life / Itzhak Handelsman -- The insular community and Jewish art / Ida Huberman -- How to merit the status of citizen / Dan Michman -- "Liberté, egalité, fraternité" : for Jews as well / Dan Michman -- Jewish art and the emancipation / Ida Huberman -- Hasidim and Mitnaggedim / Itzhak Handelsman -- The Jewish community in Russia : 1772-1881 / Itzhak Handelsman -- The legal status of Jews in Muslim lands / Nissim Yosha -- Jewish economic life in Muslim lands / Nissim Yosha -- Jewish community and culture in Muslim lands / Nissim Yosha -- The pogroms of Eastern Europe / Itzhak Handelsman -- The reawakening of Jerwish nationalism / Edna Elazari -- Modern anti-Semitism / Dan Michman -- Zionism becomes a political movement / Edna Elazari -- Jewish culture in Eastern Europe until World War II / Israel Bartal -- Jewish ethnic communities / Editors -- The wandering Jew / Shlomo Shavit.

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