Memorial Hall Library

Turning points in Jewish history, Marc J. Rosenstein

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Turning points in Jewish history

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Marc J. Rosenstein

"Examining the entire span of Jewish history through the lens of thirty pivotal moments in the Jewish people's experience from biblical times through the present, Turning Points in Jewish History provides "the big picture": both a broad and a deep understanding of the Jewish historical experience"--, Provided by publisher

Imagining the beginning: the call to Abraham, ~1500 BCE? -- Liberation from slavery: the exodus from Egypt, ~1200 BCE? -- The covenant: revelation a Sinai, ~1200 BCE? -- Entering the Promised Land: crossing the Jordan, ~1200 BCE? -- Establishing a state: "Give us a king!" ~1000 BCE -- the fall of Israel: exile of the ten tribes, 722 BCE -- The Babylonian exile: the destruction of the first temple, 586 BCE -- The second temple: return to Zion, 538 BCE -- Confronting the challenge of Hellenism: the Hasmonean revolt, 167 BCE -- Roman rule: the great revolt and destruction of the second temple, 70 CE -- Finding a messianic equilibrium: the Bar Kokhba revolt, 132-135 CE -- The oral law becomes literature: the Mishnah, ~200 CE -- The Golden Age of Iberian Jewry: Maimonides, 900-1200 CE -- The rise of Eastern European Jewry: the Crusades, 1100-1300 CE -- Kabbalah enters the mainstream: Nahmanides, ~1300 CE -- The end of Iberian Jewry: conversion, expulsion, diaspora, 1300-1600 CE -- The rise and collapse of Polish Jewry: the Cossack revolt, 1648 CE -- The rise of Hasidism: the Baal Shem Tov and his disciples, ~1750 CE -- The challenge of emancipation: the Napoleonic Sanhedrin, ~1780-1880 CE -- Reform and reaction: the Hamburg temple, 1818 CE -- The rise of North American Jewry: the great migration, 1881-1924 CE -- Jewish nationalism: Theodor Herzl, 1896 CE -- The secular Zionist movement: Ahad Ha'am, ~1900 CE -- Zionist settlement of the land of Israel: first and second Aliyot, 1882-1914 CE -- The destruction of European Jewry: the Holocaust, 1933-45 CE -- The Jewish state: proclaiming and defending independence, 1948 CE -- East meets West: the mass Aliyah from North Africa and the Mideast, 1949-64 CE -- Benefits and costs of military power: the Six-Day War, 1967 CE -- The feminist revolution: the ordination of women, 1972 CE -- The fall of the Iron Curtain: the liberation of Soviet Jewry, 1989 CE -- Afterword