Presents a collection of essays, editorials, and book reviews on Jewish history, issues, and politics written over a forty-year period by the political philosopher who fled Germany in 1933 following the rise of Hitler. Reprint.

Product Description: The Jews in the Modern World covers the period from 1750 until the present, with an emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores in detail the diverse ways in which the Jewish people have reacted to Modernity. As well as covering the Holocaust, the Diaspora and the Arab-Israeli conflict, the authors have included material on anti-Semitism, philo-Semitism, Sephardi and Oriental Jewry and the development of rival ideologies within the Jewish community...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides an autobiographical account of growing up with a mother traumatized by the Holocaust, finding Jewish identity, and discovering his gift as a poet.

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Examines the social and cultural forces which have shaped Jewish history and civilization since the time of the French Revolution

Product Description: People and Polity is Daniel J. Elazar's systematic and comprehensive study of Jewish community organization. Elazar explores how the Jewish community, as a polity, transcends geographic boundaries in the same way that the Jews, as a people, have transcended time...read more

Traces the history and describes the cultures of the Jews living outside of Israel and North America

Examines how Jewish society, politics, and culture have changed during the past two centuries and describes how modernization and widespread emigration affected the Jewish community

A comprehensive view of anti-semitism addresses its tragic history, the brutal forms it takes, and the efforts by both Jewish and non-Jewish organizations and individuals to erradicate this form of bigotry

Discusses the post-World War II experiences of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and examines events leading to the formation of the state of Israel