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Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews (1959) is the English edition of Ha-Yehudim veha-Yevanim ba-tekufah ha-Helenistit (1930 Tcherikover), book. Translated from the Hebrew by Shimon Applebaum.

Abstract

Editions

Published in Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1959.

Table of contents

Pt. 1. Hellenistic civilization in Palestine.

• Political events down to the time of Antiochus IV Epiphanes -- The Greek towns of Palestine -- Jerusalem on the eve of the Hellenistic reform -- The Hellenistic reform -- Antiochus' persecution of Judaism -- The war of liberation -- The Hasmonean period

Pt. 2. Hellenistic civilization in the diaspora.

• Political history -- Jewish community and Greek city -- Economics and society -- The cultural climate

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