A History of the Jews in the Modern World

A History of the Jews in the Modern World
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The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years.

Tracking their fate from Western Europeâ€™s age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet and post-imperialist Islamic upheavals of the twenty-first century, Sachar applies his renowned narrative skill to the central role of the Jews in many of the most impressive achievements of modern civilization: whether in the rise of economic capitalism or of political socialism; in the discoveries of theoretical physics or applied medicine; in â€œhigherâ€ literary criticism or mass communication and popular entertainment.

As his account unfolds and moves from epoch to epoch, from continent to continent, from Europe to the Americas and the Middle East, Sachar evaluates communities that, until lately, have been underestimated in the perspective of Jewish and world historyâ€”among them, Jews of Sephardic provenance, of the Moslem regions, and of Africa. By the same token, Sachar applies a masterâ€™s hand in describing and deciphering the Jewsâ€™ unique exposure and functional usefulness to totalitarian movementsâ€”fascist, Nazi, and Stalinist. In the process, he shines an unsparing light on the often widely dissimilar behavior of separate European peoples, and on separate Jewish populations, during the Holocaust.

A distillation of the authorâ€™s lifetime of scholarly research and teaching experience, A History of the Jews in the Modern World provides a source of unsurpassed intellectual richness for university students and educated laypersons alike.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber part_1400030978
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2006-09-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400030972

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Vintage
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	part_1400030978
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2006-09-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400030972

A History of the Jews in the Modern World

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