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A Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood
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by Raymond P. Scheindlin
Sales Rank: 7579
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List Price: $17.95
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Cover Type: Paperback with 288 pages
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA July 27, 2000
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0195139410
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195139419
Book Dimensions:
7.8 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 5.6 ounces
Reader Reviews
Scheindlin has managed to write nearly the perfect book for a lower division course on Jewish history. He successfully spans the entire scope of Jewish history from legendary times to the modern State of Israel in a mere 263 pages of very readable prose. His writing is neither dry nor laden with jargon. He writes like Leon Uris or Herman Wouk. Two issues of debate in the book should be supplemented with additional readings. The first is that the portrayal of the Jewish-Christian schism is only presented in the context of medieval Antisemitism, and a more balanced and informative view of the formative period of Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity is found in From Text To Tradition by Lawrence Schiffman. The second is the lachrymos portrayal of Jewish life in the Middle Ages. That should be balanced with Salo Baron's groundbreaking article "Ghetto and Emancipation," reprinted in The Menorah Treasury, ed. Leo W. Schwarz (Philadelphia, 1964). With those two caveats, I would recommend this book for any introductory Jewish history or Jewish studies survey class.
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