A History of the Jews in the Modern World - Howard M. Sachar - Books - Random House USA Inc - 9781400030972 - September 12, 2006
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Howard M. Sachar
A History of the Jews in the Modern World

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The distinguished historian of the Jewish people, Howard M. Sachar, gives us a comprehensive and enthralling chronicle of the achievements and traumas of the Jews over the last four hundred years.

Tracking their fate from Western Europe?s age of mercantilism in the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet and post-imperialist Islamic upheavals of the twenty-first century, Sachar applies his renowned narrative skill to the central role of the Jews in many of the most impressive achievements of modern civilization: whether in the rise of economic capitalism or of political socialism; in the discoveries of theoretical physics or applied medicine; in ?higher? literary criticism or mass communication and popular entertainment.

As his account unfolds and moves from epoch to epoch, from continent to continent, from Europe to the Americas and the Middle East, Sachar evaluates communities that, until lately, have been underestimated in the perspective of Jewish and world history?among them, Jews of Sephardic provenance, of the Moslem regions, and of Africa. By the same token, Sachar applies a master?s hand in describing and deciphering the Jews? unique exposure and functional usefulness to totalitarian movements?fascist, Nazi, and Stalinist. In the process, he shines an unsparing light on the often widely dissimilar behavior of separate European peoples, and on separate Jewish populations, during the Holocaust.

A distillation of the author?s lifetime of scholarly research and teaching experience, A History of the Jews in the Modern World provides a source of unsurpassed intellectual richness for university students and educated laypersons alike.


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831 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 12, 2006
ISBN13 9781400030972
Publishers Random House USA Inc
Pages 848
Dimensions 152 × 234 × 38 mm   ·   884 g
Language English  

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