The Modern Jewish Experience A Readers Guide

includes index and biblioraphy

Part I : A guide to fields of Study Area Studies The jews in ealry modern central and western Europe ......5 Polish jewry to the partitions...12 The jews in Imperial Russia.18 Soviet jewry.25 The jews of Austria-hungry......32 The jews of north africa and the middle east..39 American jewish history.52 Jews in common wealth countries .62 Israeli society and culture .......72 Latin american jewry.........80 Social and Political Issues The traditional jewish community.91 Jewish emancipation .........95 Secular jewish culture...........102 Modern jewish social history......109 The mass migration of east European jews .......123 Modern antisemitism and jewish response.133 The holocaust ....140 Religious and ideological movement Hasidism and its opponents ............151 Religious movements in nineteenth-and twentieth-century Eastern Europe...........158 Modern jewish religious movements........169 Modern jewish politics ...181 Zionist ideology .........189 Religious culture and politics in Israel..........201 Disciplinary perspectives Modern jewish literature...........213 Jewish art in the modern era.....228 Jewish music in the Modern era....242 Modern jewish demography....275 American and canadian Jewish sociology.....291 Part II Teaching resources An annotated guide to major reference works ......315 Modern jewish experience..............331 The modern jewish experience.....341