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Authors: Steven Bayme
ISBN-13: 9780881255546, ISBN-10: 0881255548
Format: Paperback
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Date Published: January 1997
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: Steven Bayme

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
ICreation, Covenant, Redemption1
IIMonarchy and Political Centralization12
IIIProphecy and Biblical Region24
IVDestruction and Exile35
VAthens and Jerusalem50
VIJewish Sectarianism63
VIIRome and Jerusalem74
VIIIDestruction and Renewal89
IXOrigins of Christianity103
XThe Church and the Jews115
XIJewry and Islam126
XIIJewish Messianism and Sectarianism140
XIIIMedieval Jewish Philosophy and Mysticism152
XIVThe Crusades and the Jews164
XVIslamic Jewish Culture176
XVIJews and Christian Spain188
XVIIRenaissance and Reformation198
XVIIIThe Marrano Phenomenon212
XIXEast European Jewry223
XXSabbetianism and its Aftermath233
XXIHasidism245
XXIIDecline of the Medieval Kehilla258
XXIIIJewish Emancipation in France269
XXIVReform Judaism279
XXVNeo-Orthodoxy295
XXVIModern Anti-Semitism307
XXVIIReaction in Eastern Europe321
XXVIIIModern Zionism332
XXIXJewish Settlement in America346
XXXConservative Judaism and Reconstructionism359
XXXIJewry and the Soviet Union370
XXXIIThe Holocaust383
XXXIIIIsrael and World Jewry403
XXXIVWhere Are We?422
Index431

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