Titre : | A History of the Jews |
Auteurs : | Paul Johnson, Auteur |
Type de document : | texte imprimé |
Editeur : | HarperPerennial, 1988 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-06-091533-9 |
Format : | xi + 644 p. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Index. décimale : | OB/A (Histoire du peuple juif: approche globale) |
Résumé : | A national best seller, this brilliant 4000 year survey covers not only Jewish history but the impact of Jewish genius and imagination on the world. By the author of Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Eighties. |
Note de contenu : |
- Acknowledgments - Prologue PART ONE: ISRAELITES - The symbolism of the Machpelah Cave / ‘I am a stranger and a sojourner’ / A new kind of God / The ethical Flood / Abraham and his historical rebirth / Monotheism in embryo / The elect nation / A vaguely promised land / Tribes and amphictyonies / Joseph, the first Grey Eminence / Infantile bondage, exodus to maturity / Moses, a totalitarian of the spirit / The Laws: divine sovereignty, human sanctity / The democratic theocracy / The conqueror Joshua and the archaeological record / Judges: the charismatic delinquents / Samuel and state prophecy / Saul and the great constitutional debate / David, the sacerdotal king / Solomon, royal absolutism and the temple-state / Elijah’s still, small voice / Amos and class warfare / Hosea and the religion of the heart / The rise of rigorism / Isaiah and the birth of conscience / Jeremiah, the first Jew. PART TWO: JUDAISM - Ezekiel’s Valley of Bones / Nehemiah’s Second Temple / Ezra, the scribes and the canon / The Jews as historians / Job, God and theodicy / The Greeks versus the Jews / The Maccabees invent martyrdom / Second Commonwealth: purity to corruption / Rise of Pharisaic Judaism / Herod the Great’s philanthropic tyranny / The Temple in its gruesome glory / Daniel’s apocalyptic revolution / The idea of the Messiah / Jesus: Suffering Servant or Rebellious Elder? / Paul and the theft of Jewish universalism / Anti-Semitism in pagan antiquity / Josephus and the Great Revolt / Simon bar Kokhba’s grim little kingdom / Christians versus Jews / Jabneh and rabbinical Judaism / Tannaim, amoraim, Mishnah and Talmud / The maturing of Jewish moral theology / The necessity for social responsibility / The renunciation of violence / The Babylonian exilarchate / Early Christian anti-Semitism / The Islamic heresy. PART THREE: CATHEDOCRACY - Benjamin of Tudela’s world / Jews and the creation of the Dark Age city / The moral argument over interest-taking / Jews under Islam: the dhimmis / Rule by scholarship / The family and the academic hierarchy / Maimonides, the central figure in Jewish history / The Cairo genizah / The aims of medieval Jewish rationalism / Irrationalism as a countervailing force / Mysticism and the kabbalah / Judah Halevi and Nahmanides / The Zohar / Jews and medicine / The social structure of medieval Jewries / Jewish religious infrastructure / Jews in Latin Christendom / Anti-Jewish demonology / The crusader pogroms / The first blood libel / Moneylending and farming the Jews / Jews, friars and Black Death / Spain and the ‘Jewish problem’: the disputations / Decline of Jewish intellectual life / Riots and Tortosa / The conversos and the Inquisition / The destruction of Spanish Jewry / The refugees and the Judensau. PART FOUR: GHETTO - Ibn Verga and the Jewish hate-legacy / The first ghetto in Venice / Jews as controversialists and as slaves / Renaissance, Reformation and the Jews / The impact of the Counter-Reformation / Jews, movement and the expansion of enterprise / The rationalization of money / The Jews in eastern Europe / Making the Thirty Years War pay / The rise and fall of the court Jew / The 1648 catastrophe and its effects / Lurianic kabbalah and democratic mysticism / Magic and the Messiah / Shabbetai Zevi, Nathan of Gaza and osmotic gnosticism / The ecumenical Jacob Frank / Manasseh ben Israel and the Jewish return to England / Jews in New York / American Jewry: a new phenomenon / Jews and the rise of capitalism / Rationalism and counter-rationalism in the ghetto: Rossi and Caro / Spinoza, pantheism and atheism / Jewish eighteenth-century pietism: the Ba’al Shem Tov and the hasidim / The Gaon of Vilna and meritorious persecution / Mendelssohn and the Jewish enlightenment / Reforming the Jews and the birth of modern anti-Semitism. PART FIVE: EMANCIPATION - Attempts to solve ‘the Jewish problem’: the way of baptism / The way of the Rothschilds / Britain, a philosemitic society / The Damascus case / Disraeli and Jewish Christianity / Zunz and the ‘science of Judaism’ / Hirsch and neo-Orthodoxy / Krochmal, Graetz and the writing of Jewish history / Geiger and Reform Judaism / Luzzatto and the way of Hebrew / The Yiddish alternative / The rise of the secular Jewish intellectual: Heine and Jewish self-hate / Marx and Jewish anti-Semitism / The Ashkenazi population explosion / Tsarist Jewish policy / The post-1881 exodus from Russia and its effects / Mordecai Noah, Reform and German—Jewish America / Emma Lazarus and the New York mass Jewry / The Zionist idea: Moses Hess / Waiting for Daniel Deronda / Modem racism, Dreyfus and the French / Lazare, Reinach, Proust and the rise of intellectual political power / Herzl and German anti-Semitism / Der Judenstaat and the Zionist movement / The Ostjuden and Weizmann / The religious opposition to Zionism / The German-Jewish love-affair: Cohen, Rosenzweig and Rathenau / The Jews and modernist culture / Mahler, Schönberg and music / Bakst, Chagall and Jewish vision / Freud: the modern Jewish gnostic / Einstein and the Jewish rationalist spirit / Kafka and the lost souls. PART SIX: HOLOCAUST - The First World War and the Jews / Weizmann and the British establishment / Rothschild and the Balfour Declaration / The Jewish settlements in Palestine / Jabotinsky and Jewish self-defence / Rise of Arab nationalism / The mandate, Samuel and the mufti / Jewish emigration under the mandate / Ben Gurion and socialist Zionism / Inter-war British policy / Luxemburg, Trotsky and Non-Jewish Jews / The case of Isaac Babel / The Protocols and the consequences of Jewish Bolshevism / In Britain / In France / In America / Brandeis and the Supreme Court / Jews on Broadway and in Hollywood / Jews in crime / Baruch and high finance / Lippmann and Jewish invisibility / Jews in post-war Germany / Hitler’s anti-Semitism / Students, academics and Jews / Jews, media violence and Weimar culture / The case of Walter Benjamin / Hitler in power and anti-Semitic dualism / The steps towards Holocaust / Wartime; starving and working to death / Origins of the extermination programme / Mobile mass killing / The death camps / Role of the German people / The Austrians, the Rumanians, the French, the Italians / The role of the British and Americans / Jewish acquiescence and resistance / The survival of anti-Semitism / Punishing the criminals / Compensating the victims. PART SEVEN: ZION - Catastrophe and providence in Jewish history / Britain and the Zionist state / Begin and Jewish terrorism / The British abdicate / America, Russia and the window of opportunity / The War of Israel’s Independence / Deir Yassin and the refugees, Arab and Jewish / The frontiers of Zion / The maximum-security state / The Sinai Campaign / The Six Day War / The Yom Kippur War / Peace with Egypt / Defining a Jew / The ingathering / Hebrew as a modern tongue / The socialist corporate state / Ben Gurion and Begin / The religious parties / Sabbath, education, marriage / The Temple Mount / The trial of Eichmann / The continuing diaspora / Exotic sects / The diaspora in Europe / The special role of American Jewry / Russian Jewry and Stalinist anti-Semitism / South Africa and the origins of ‘Zionist imperialism’ / Modern Soviet anti-Zionism / The Arab anti-Semitic campaign / The UN, terrorism and the Israeli response / The role of the secular Zion today. - Epilogue - Glossary - Source notes - Index |
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