The book is divided into three sections: medieval Jewry, focusing on Italy and the Mediterranean Basin; the growth of Zionism, and specifically, the ideological debates that characterized it; and the Holocaust period, particularly the responses of European Jews to what was happening to them. Each section is introduced by the editor of the essays included in it. The Hebrew section includes articles by Anita Shapira, Dina Porat, Michael Heymann, Yosef Gorny, Ruth Lamdan, Shalom Ratzabi, and more. The English section includes articles by Minna Rozen, Benjamin Arbel, Elazar Gutwirth, Benjamin Ravid, and more.

The book covers 4,000 years of Jewish History - from the time of Abraham up to the present. It is divided into seven parts: Israelites, Judaism, Cathedocracy, Ghetto, Emancipation, Holocaust, Zion.

The Jews are the most tenacious people in history. Hebron is there to prove it. It lies 20 miles south of Jerusalem, 3,000 feet up in the Judaean hills. There, in the Cave of Machpelah, are the Tombs of the Patriarchs. According to ancient tradition, one sepulchre, itself of great antiquity, contains the mortal remains of Abraham, founder of the Jewish religion and ancestor of the Jewish race. Paired with his tomb is that of his wife Sarah. Within the building are the twin tombs of his son Isaac and his wife Rebecca. Across the inner courtyard is another pair of tombs, of Abraham's grandson Jacob and his wife Leah. Just outside the building is the tomb of their son Joseph.' This is where the 4,000-year history of the Jews, in so far as it can be anchored in time and place, began.

An historical resume of Jewish happenings in rhyme. The various periods dealt with in this book are: The Patriarchal age, The Commonwealths and Exils, The Diaspora Communities, The Third Commonwealth afther the Holocaust, The Macabean Revolt, The Talmudic Age, The Rise of Christianity, The Mystics and Sages in All Lands, The Spanish Inquisition, The False Messiahs.

118 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, good condition: pages and binding are clean and tight, some wear and tear to jacket. Inscribed by the author.

Chapters of Jewish history in rhymes. The book covers the following periods: The Patriarchal Age, The Commonwealths and Exiles, The Diaspora Communities, The Third Commonwealth After the Holocaust. It covers subjects such as The Maccabean Revolt, The Tannaitic Age, The Rise of Christianity, The Mystics and Sages in All Lands, The Spanish Inquisition, The False Messiahs.

A of the Jewish people with focus on their social history. The book is divided into five parts: Israel: 1900-586 B.C.; The Jew: 586 B.C. -A.D. 425; Diaspora: 425-1492; Twilight: 1492-1815; The New Age: 1815-1945.

470 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, good condition: pages are yellow but clean and tight.

Between the sands of the Arabian Peninsula and the Mediterranean shore lies a narrow strip of fertile soil. It is a land of hills and valleys, of luxuriant vegetation and austere wastes, of exuberant plains and vistas which stir the depths of human imagination.
(Cecil Roth: A Short History of the Jewish People, page 3)

Hundert Jahre Geschichte - vom letzten Drittel des 18. Jahrhundrets an grechnet - hatte in den Landern Europas zu tiefgreifenden Anderungen gefuhrt.

An account of the archaeological Bar-Kokhba expedition and the dramatic discoveries that it brought about.

The Great War of the Jews against the Romans which began in AD 66 and ended in 70 - the so-called First Revolt - was quelled with terrible consequences for Judaea.

In 1946, immediately upon the close of World War II, Marie Syrkin traveled to Palestine to discover how the network of Jewish resistance had operated in the Nazi charnel house. She interviewed partisan leaders, ghetto fighters, and parachutists from Palestine who had been dropped behind the Nazi lines to organize resistance. The mother of the legendary Hannah Senesh described to the author her daughter’s last days in Hungarian prison. In a Tel Aviv Joel Brandt told of his negotiations with Eichmann, the Nazi henchman, for the ransom of European Jewry. Young organizers of the “illegal” immigration added their narratives to the history of martyrdom and glory

In Daphne I met Ud. Daphne is a Jewish agricultural settlement in upper Galilee; Ud is a baby. The queer monosyllable by which he is known was not bestowed capriciously; nor is it a pet-name. Ud is a Hebrew word which means ``the last brand,`` the ember plucked from the burning.
The boy and girl who were the parents of Ud had escaped from the Warsaw ghetto, after taking part in its last stand. Together they reached Palestine and in that land their son was born.

It was dim and close in the classroom. Outdoors there was air, acres of air, and sunshine. Outside too was his friend, Acratheus, who was perhaps swimming or fishing in the Ulai. Bani wishes he were with him there, outside, instead of sitting here with the other sons of the Jewish community of Susa. If only the lesson had been concerned with his great heroes, the warrior kings, David or Saul, or those mighty men, Jonathan and JOab! But Jeremiah was the subject of that day's lesson. Jeremiah - a prophet who had lived over one hundred years ago. Who cared what he had said!

Related books that may interest you:
The Road of Israel
They Fought for Freedom

A catalogue prepared for the event of commemorating the 500 anniversary of the explusion of Jews from Spain in both Spain and Jerusalem. The catalogue includesthe addresses of Juan Carlos I - King of Spain and Haim Herzog - President of Israel, An historical survey on Spanish Jewry by Prof. Yom Tov Assis, An encyclopedic glossary of Spanish Jewry by Geoffrey Wigoder, details about related exhibitions, and more. 

A political treatise analyzing the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of Hebrew thought from the exodus to the present day, suggesting changes for a regeneration of a modern Hebrew civilization. The main purpose of the author is to evoke a discussion about the essence and origins of Israel and the reasons for its existence.  The treatise is divided into five parts: Part 1 deals with the emergence of ethical monotheism and its creative development up to the explusion of the Jews from Christian Spain and Portugal. Part 2 deals with the Jewish Dark ages - three hundred years of intellectual isolation from the developments of European thought. Part 3 deals with the modern era - from the emergence of the national consciousness, and the Zionist movement to World War II. Part 4 deals with the upheavals during World War II, the struggle for survival of European Jewry, and of the Yishuv in Israel, the fight of Britain against the Jews fleeing from Nazi persecution, and the establishment of the State of Israel. Part 5 deals with the steps, changes, and legal enactments necessary to turn Israel into an open and liberal society.

Before starting with our survey, I have to make a statement explaining the conceptual base on which this survey was made: Contrary to Rabbinic tradition, beliefs, and teachings, I see in the events told in the Torah, the Pentateuch, the story of the creative evolution of Hebrew ethical monotheism, developed by Moses and God-inspired man, expounded and developed further by the classical prophets, transmitted orally from generation to generation, and finally written down at a much later date with a certain amount of editing, mainly done by the priestly caste. We shall return to this matter presently.

Abba Eban charts the 5,000-year-old Jewish encounter with civilization, from its birth in the Mesopotamian desert to the rebirth of independence in the modern State of Israel.

400 pages, paperback, pocket book, good condition.

Dies ist die Geschichte eines kleinen Volkes, dem bestimmt war, eine grobe Rolle in der Geschichte der Menschheit zu spielen.

This book tells the story of Don Isaac Abravanel and presents his remarkable personality. Abravanel comes vividly to life both as a person and as a thinker. The strange dualism of his personality - Abravanel the practical financier and Abravanel the mystic - is carefully discussed and explained. The author skillfully recreates the climate of that intellectually turbulnet age and identifies the current of which Abravanel was part. He makes us aware of the tragedy of the Jews of that generation and unfolds before our eyes the mystical and quite incredible solution which Abravanel offered to the problems which then faced the Jewish people. .

350 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket, ex-library but still a very good copy with very clean and tight pages and binding.

Don Isaac Abravanel was born in Lisbon, in the year 1437, into a family which ranked high among the Jews of Portugal and, indeed, of the entire Iberian peninsula. The Abravanels were distinguished by their financial position as well as by their political achievements. Abravanel`s father, Don Judah, was the financier of Prince Fernando, the son of Portugal`s Joao I, and in all probability, was similarly employed by other members of the royal family.

The first two parts of the book include a detailed account of The Six Day War . Part three highlights the entire history of the Jewish people from King David down to the present time, and part four deals with ancient and modern prophecies concerning the Jews.

It was Sunday, June 4, 1967. All the newspapers carried the doleful account describing the terrible predicament in which the diminutive country of Israel had suddenly found herself. A country no larger than the state of Massachusetts with a population of only 23/4 million was being completely encircled by the League of Arab States. These states represented a population of 50 million and they were allied with other Arab States representing 60 million more. A military massacre appeared inevitable.

A selection of studies about the history of the Jews in Poland. From the table of contents: Some Basic Characteristics of the Jewish Experience in Poland; Aspects of the History of Warsaw as a Yiddish Literary Centre; Trends in the Literary Perception of jews in Modern Polish Fiction; Eros and Enlightenment: Love against Marriage in the East European Jewish Enlightenment. Aspects of Jewish Self-Government in Lodz 1914-1939; The POlish Jewish Daily Press; The Conditions of Admittance and the Social Background of Jewish Children Saved by Women's Religious Orders in Poland 1939-1945; Poles and Poland in I. Bashevis Singer's Fiction; and more.

An anthology of great Yiddish essays translated into English. From the Table of Contents: I.L. Peretz: Roads that Lead Away from Jewishness. Vladimir Jabotinsky: Leaders. Meir Grossman: Jabotinsky - Our First Meeting. Aaron Zeitlin: The Machine that Makes Gods. Sholem Asch: My Faith. Aaron Steinberg: Our Account with christianity. Melech Ravitch: Why Not Canonize a Second Book of Books?. Eliezer Steinman: The Baal Shem Miracle. Itzik Manger: The Poetry of Our Holy Days. Simon Dubnow: From Jargon to Yiddish. Mendele Mocher Seforim: Introducing Myself to My Readers. Nahum Sokolov: Jewish Literature and Jewish Literary Societies. Mendel Mann: The Wife of Franz Kafka. And many more.

This book describes the contacts between Hellenism and the more ancient civilizations of Asia. It outlines the rise and fall of empires, but concentrates on the dramatic changes in the life and thought of the peoples involved.

At a time when important political events were occurring in Europe, and Philip of Macedon was extending his power over the whole of the Balkan peninsula to include Greece, Palestine lay quietly under the rule of the kings of Persia and no historical event of special importance disturbed its regular and slow-moving manner of life. The Persian yoke was not especially heavy, and the central government at Susa placed no obstacle in the way of the natural development of the numerous peoples under its sway; hence the Jews also enjoyed a certain autonomy under their national heads, the High Priests.

This is the story of a small people with a large place in the destiny of mankind. There are about 14 million Jews in the world, a small fraction of the human family. They have never much power or space or size; yet we cannot recount the history of civilization without coming face to face with what the Jews have thought and felt and written and done.

History of the Jews, written in Germany just before Hitler came into power. The book has six parts: From the Rise of the Theocracy to the Dominion of the Law. From the Encounter with Greece to the Encounter with Christianity. From the Banishment from Palestine to the Settlement in the West. From the Spanish Period to the Banishment from the West. From the Settlement in the East to the Rise of the Jewish Crisis. From the Struggle for Equal Rights to the Jewish Renaissance.  Translated from the German by Hunter Paterson.

The growth of a people is always a mysterious process. From out mere groups, hordes, tribes, or individual families, whose one thought is themselves, there suddenly arise confederations and communities sharing the same manners and destiny; birth and death; happiness and nemesis suddenly aquire a new meaning, while new feelings and modes of thought arise to put a new face on the world.

Another book you may enjoy:
The Indestructible Jews / Max I. Dimont