List Price:	$19.99
Your Price:	$15.07
You Save:	$4.92 (25%)
	Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Availability:	Usually ships in 24 hours


Quantity:	or Buy at Amazon.com

Shopping & Saving made Easy and Social:


	Request a Price Drop Alert			Buy at Amazon.com

Product Details

Number of Pages:	288
Category:	Paperback
Number of Items:	1
ISBN:	0195139410
Label/Manufacturer:	Oxford University Press, USA

Product Description

"Jewish history is often told not as a narrative of real people with human problems and interests but as an idealized national myth," writes Raymond Scheinlin, in the introduction to his excellent A Short History of the Jewish People. Scheinlin is an observant Jew, but his book is not a history of the Jewish religion. It is a history of Jewish tribes around the world and the ways "they have interacted with the nations and cultures among whom they have lived, adapting to their environment while retaining a variety of continuities." The book's brevity precludes exhaustiveness, but its focus on particular Jewish communities and its disciplined analysis of their political successes and foibles give readers a firm grasp on the movements in Jewish history that have shaped the Middle East, Europe, and America. Amply illustrated with maps and photographs, the fluid prose of Scheinlin's History make this book a useful starting point for anyone seeking a secular history of Judaism that is neither skeptical nor hostile to religion. --Michael Joseph Gross

Product Features

Similar Products

		The Jewish Bible: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures -- The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text: Torah * Nevi'im * Kethuvim $22.00 $14.96 Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping By The Jewish Publication Society
		The Jewish Home: A Guide for Jewish Living $14.95 $9.65 Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping By Urj Press
		Finding God: Selected Responses $14.95 $9.83 Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping By Urj Press
		Choosing Judaism $14.95 $11.09 Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping By Urj Press
		Introduction to Judaism: A Source Book $29.95 $15.74 Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping By Urj Press