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==Editions and translations== | ==Editions and translations== | ||
First published in New York, NY: Knopf, 1930. Often reprinted and updated. | |||
*[[A History of the Jews, 2nd ed. (1940 Sachar), book]] | *[[A History of the Jews, 2nd ed. (1940 Sachar), book]] | ||
*[[A History of the Jews, 3rd ed. (1948 Sachar), book]] | *[[A History of the Jews, 3rd ed. (1948 Sachar), book]] | ||
*[[A History of the Jews, 4th ed. (1953 Sachar), book]] | *[[A History of the Jews, 4th ed. (1953 Sachar), book]] | ||
*[[A History of the Jews, 5th ed. ( | *[[A History of the Jews, 5th ed. (1965 Sachar), book]] | ||
====Translations==== | ====Translations==== | ||
*[[Historia de los judíos (1943 Sachar), book ( | *[[Historia de los judíos = A History of the Jews (1943 Sachar / Cané Fontecilla), book (Chilean ed.)]] | ||
*[[Histoire des Juifs (1973 Sachar), book (French ed.)]] | *[[Histoire des Juifs = A History of the Jews (1973 Sachar / Braun), book (French ed.)]] | ||
==Table of contents== | ==Table of contents== |
Revision as of 09:56, 27 December 2012
A History of the Jews (1930) is a book by Abram Leon Sachar.
Abstract
A short history of Jews, from the origins to the present.
Editions and translations
First published in New York, NY: Knopf, 1930. Often reprinted and updated.
- A History of the Jews, 2nd ed. (1940 Sachar), book
- A History of the Jews, 3rd ed. (1948 Sachar), book
- A History of the Jews, 4th ed. (1953 Sachar), book
- A History of the Jews, 5th ed. (1965 Sachar), book
Translations
Table of contents
The cast of characters -- The origins of the Hebrews -- The Hebrews enter Palestine -- The growth of national consciousness -- A house divided against itself -- The prophets : the living Hebrew conscience -- The rise of Judaism -- Life and labour in biblical Palestine -- The meeting of Hellenism and Hebraism -- The end of the Jewish state -- The rise of Christianity -- The development of the Talmud -- The new Moslem world -- The golden age in Moslem Spain -- Four bloody centuries in Christian Europe -- The decline and fall of Jewish life in Spain -- Havens of refuge -- Degeneration -- The Jew in the mediaeval world -- The end of the Jewish Middle Ages -- The fall of the mediaeval citadel -- The triumph of liberalism -- Factors in American Jewish history -- The Russian Jewish nightmare -- Cultural and religious changes -- The revival of anti-Semitism -- Zionism -- From Sarajevo to San Remo, 1914-20 -- Europe between the wars -- The western hemisphere in the twentieth century -- The epic of Palestine -- World War II and after -- The new state of Israel.
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