Format:
vii, 469 p
,
ill
,
26 cm
ISBN:
9780786434404
Content:
"The author presents through pictures and text a social history of Jewish life and art in the last 500 years. Each chapter relates the brief history of a period, devoting particular attention to events concerning Jewish life"--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-461) and index
,
Jewish art : in the beginning -- The fifteenth century : printmaking and printing begin -- The sixteenth century : let there be books -- The seventeenth century: the old world and the new -- The eighteenth century : enlightenment, emancipation -- England in the nineteenth century : industry and the politics of equity -- France in the nineteenth century : Napoleon and the rise of Zionism -- Central Europe and Russia in the nineteenth century : modern -- Anti-semitism -- America in the nineteenth century : immigration and liberation -- England in the twentieth century: working class to upper class -- France in the twentieth century: grandeur and loss -- Germany and austria in the twentieth century : disaster and renewal -- Russia and eastern europe in the twentieth century : radical -- Theories, mass migrations -- America in the twentieth century : from the immigrant experience -- To modernity -- Israel in the twentieth century : Erets Yisrael, hope deferred.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Juden
;
Europa
;
Geschichte 1400-2000
