A History of the Jewish People - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674397304 ISBN 13: 9780674397309

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1976

Synopsis

EX - Library book with all the usual stamps and markings. Some shelf wear. Pages are clean and binding is tight.

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Hebrew (translation)

Review:

This ambitious history by six Hebrew University scholars seeks to encompass the full range of the Jewish experience in nationhood and exile. It is an impressive work...considering the necessary compression--5,000 years and a scattering of settings virtually worldwide covered in just over 1,100 pages--the work is an achievement of consequence. (Robert Kirsch Los Angeles Times)

Offering a full panorama of Jewish existence from the dim origins of the 2nd millennium B.C.E. to the hard politics of modern Israel, this work breaks new ground for a one-volume history, both in its range and in its authority...The book as a whole is a monument to scholarship and feeling, immersing the reader on every page in the rich texture of the Jewish heritage. (Chaim Raphael Commentary)

This huge collection of essays by "leading scholars at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem" brings to ultimate expression the "peoplehood-and-history" theory of Jewish historiography. (Jacob Neuser American Historical Review)

Represents one of the finest compendia on the topic published to date. (Jewish Week)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0674397304
• ISBN 13: 9780674397309
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1170
• Editor: Haim H. Ben-Sasson