The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 8, The Modern World, 1815-2000

Description

The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Judaism covers the period from roughly 1815-2000. Exploring the breadth and depth of Jewish societies and their manifold engagements with aspects of the modern world, it offers overviews of modern Jewish history, as well as more focused essays on political, social, economic, intellectual and cultural developments. The first part presents a series of interlocking surveys that address the history of diverse areas of Jewish settlement. The second part is organized around the emancipation. Here, chapter themes are grouped around the challenges posed by and to this elemental feature of Jewish life in the modern period. The third part adopts a thematic approach organized around the category 'culture', with the goal of casting a wide net in terms of perspectives, concepts and topics. The final part then focuses on the twentieth century, offering readers a sense of the dynamic nature of Judaism and Jewish identities and affiliations.

Mitchell B. Hart is Professor of History and the Alexander Grass Chair of Jewish History at the University of Florida. His first book, Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity (2000), won the Salo Baron Prize. He is also the author of The Healthy Jew (Cambridge, 2007), and the editor of Jewish Blood (2009) and Jews and Race: Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880-1940 (2011). Tony Michels is the George L. Mosse Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is author of the award-winning book, A Fire in their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (2005), and editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History (2012).