A History of the Jewish Experience

by Trepp, Leo

• ISBN13: 9780874416725
• ISBN10: 0874416728
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Behrman House

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	xv
Book One Torah and History
Torah: The Five Books of Moses	03	(20)
Nevi'im: The Prophets	23	(24)
Ketuvim: The Collected Writings	47	(20)
The Second Temple: The Rise and Fall of the Hasmonean Dynasty and the Jewish State	67	(22)
The Jews on the Land: From the Fall of the Second Temple until the Crusades	89	(10)
Judaism and Christianity: Dissent, Disruption, Dialogue	99	(14)
The Glory of Sefardic Jewry	113	(12)
Ashkenasic Jewry in the Middle Ages: Crisis and Learning	125	(10)
Ashkenasic Jewry Rises to Eminence	135	(10)
Forces and Counterforces	145	(16)
Hasidism: Tikkun in Galut	161	(8)
Reason, Enlightenment, and the Jews	169	(12)
Conflicts and Conferences: The Emergence of Denominations	181	(14)
The Agony of Russian Jewry	195	(8)
The Emergence of Zionism	203	(12)
Enter America	215	(22)
The Religious Dynamics of American Jewry	237	(24)
Insecure Citizenship	261	(12)
War and Holocaust	273	(12)
Israel Reborn	285	(22)
Book Two Torah, Mitzvot, and Jewish Thought
Introduction to Book 2	305	(2)
Synagogue	307	(10)
Torah	317	(10)
Oral Torah	327	(20)
Prayer and the Prayer Book	347	(22)
The Jewish Calendar	369	(4)
Shabbat, the Sabbath	373	(12)
Pilgrimage Festivals and Simhat Torah	385	(18)
Yamim Noraim, The Days of Awe	403	(14)
Minor Feasts and Fasts	417	(12)
The Road of Life	429	(24)
Women and Religious Law	453	(10)
Through the Eyes of the Jewish Mystics	463	(22)
Ancient and Medieval Thought	485	(12)
Living in Two Cultures: German Jewish Thought	497	(20)
Postmodern Thought Since the Holocaust	517	(26)
Bibliography	543	(8)
Index	551