The Jewish People An Illustrated History

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Documents the turbulent history of the Jewish people. This atlas portrays various aspects of Jewish history that lends itself to cartographic interpretation, since biblical times. It presents the coverage of major themes in biblical, mishnaic, talmudic, medieval, and modern Jewish history.

I. ANCIENT TIMES

(122)

A. The Conquest and Settlement

The Tradition of Abraham's Migration

(3)

Abraham and Isaac in the Land of Canaan

(1)

Jacob and His Sons

(1)

The Exodus and Wandering in the Wilderness

(2)

Egypt of the Exodus

(2)

The Penetration into Transjordan

(1)

The Narrative of the Conquest of the Land of Canaan

(1)

Conquests in the South

(3)

The Battle of Gibeon

(1)

Conquest of Southern Shephelah Districts (and Central Hill Country) (latter half of 12th cent. BCE)

(1)

The War of Deborah and the Battle of the Waters of Merom

(4)

The War of Deborah—The Deployment of Forces (12th cent. BCE)

(1)

The War of Deborah—The Battle

(1)

The Death of Sisera

(1)

The Battle of the Waters of Merom

(1)

The Limits of Israelite Control (12th-11th cent. BCE)

(3)

The Twelve Tribes

(2)

The Borders of the Tribal Territories (12th-11th cent. BCE)

(1)

The Judges According to Their Tribes (12th-11th cent. BCE)

(2)

B. The United Monarchy

The Kingdom of Saul (c 1035-1017 BCE)

(2)

The Kingdom of David (c 1000-970 BCE)

(1)

The Kingdom of David and Solomon (c 1000-930 BCE)

(2)

The Israelite Hegemony During the Reigns of David and Solomon (c. 1000-930 BCE)

(1)

The Building and Expansion of Jerusalem (mid-10th cent. BCE)

(1)

C. Israel and Judah

The Division of the Kingdom (931 BCE)

(2)

The Wars Between Israel and Judah

(3)

Abijah's Conquest (c 911 BCE)

(1)

Baasha's Attack on Asa (c. 895 BCE)

(1)

Ahab's Wars with Aram (855-853 BCE)

(1)

The Battle of Qamar (853 BCE)

(2)

Israel and Judah in the Days of Jeroboam II and Uzziah (mid-8th cent. BCE)

(2)

The Cities of the Prophets (9th-7th cent. BCE)

(2)

The Campaign of Rezin and Pekah Against Judah (735 BCE)

(2)

The Assyrian Campaigns (734-712 BCE)

(3)

The Campaigns of Tiglath-pileser III (734-732 BCE)

(1)

The Campaigns of Shalmaneser V and Sargon II to Palestine (724-712 BCE)

(1)

Sennacherib's Reconquest of Phoenicia (701 BCE)

(2)

Sennacherib in Philistia and Judah (701 BCE)

(1)

D. The Kingdom of Judah

Judah and Her Neighbors During the Reign of Manasseh (701-642 BCE)

(2)

The Kingdom of Josiah (628-609 BCE)

(2)

The Districts of Judah

(2)

The Closing Years of the Kingdom of Judah (599-586 BCE)

(1)

The Exile from Judah (597-582 BCE)

(1)

The Flight to Egypt (c 586 BCE)

(1)

Judah Under Babylonian Rule (early 6th cent. BCE)

(1)

The Return to Zion (538-445 BCE)

(1)

Post-Exilic Jerusalem (c 440 BCE)

(1)

The Province of Yehud (c 440 BCE)

(2)

E. The Hellenistic Period

Alexander the Great in Palestine (332-331 BCE)

(2)

The Jewish Diaspora (3rd–1st cent. BCE)

(2)

The Jewish Diaspora in Babylonia, Asia Minor and Greece

(1)

The Jewish Diaspora in the Ptolemaic Kingdom

(1)

F. The Maccabess

The Beginnings of the Maccabean Revolt (167 BCE)

(1)

The Battle of Beth-zur and the Rededication of the Temple (165 BCE)

(1)

The Expansion of Judea in the Days of Jonathan (152-142 BCE)

(1)

Jerusalem of the Maccabees (164-141 BCE)

(1)

The Kingdom of Alexander Janneus (103-76 BCE)

(2)

G. The Roman Conquest

Pompey's Campaign in Palestine (63 BCE)

(1)

Pompey's Territorial Arrangements (63-55 BCE)

(2)

Pompey's Territorial Arrangements

(1)

The Parthian Invasion and the Escape of Herod (40 BCE)

(1)

The Growth of Herod's Kingdom (40-4 BCE)

(1)

Herod's Building in Jerusalem

(3)

The Division of Herod's Kingdom (4 BCE-6 CE)

(1)

The Early Procurators of Judea (6-41 CE)

(2)

The Essenes

(1)

H. In the Time of Jesus

The Journeys of Jesus (5 BCE-30

(1)

Around the Sea of Galilee

(2)

Jesus' Last Journey to Jerusalem

(1)

The Jewish Diaspora in the Time of Jesus

(1)

I. The First Revolt Against the Romans

The Kingdom of Agrippa I (37-44 CE)

(1)

The Kingdom of Agrippa II (44-66 CE)

(1)

The Outbreak of the First Revolt Against Rome

(2)

The Siege of Jerusalem in the Year 70 CE

(2)

The Fall of Masada (73 CE)

(1)

The Sages of Jabneh

(1)

The Land of Israel After the First Revolt (70-131 CE)

(3)

J. The Second Revolt Against the Romans

Jewish Revolts in the Diaspora (115-117 CE)

(1)

The Jewish Revolt in Cyrenaica and Egypt (116 CE)

(1)

Trajan's Campaign in the East; Cyprus Revolt and "the War of Quietus" (115-117 CE)

(1)

The Beginnings of the Bar Kokhba Revolt (131-132 CE)

(3)

The Third and Fourth Years of the Bar Kokhba Revolt (133-134 CE)

(1)

The Siege of Bethther (135 CE)

(1)

The Decrees of Hadrian (135 CE)

(1)

Aelia Capitolina (135-324 CE)

100

(1)

K. Renewal of Jewish Settlement in Palestine

The Wanderings of the Sanhedrin (after 70 CE)

101

(1)

The Twenty-four Priestly Divisions

101

(1)

The Jewish Settlement After 140 CE

102

(1)

The Jewish Diaspora in the Time of Antoninus Pius (138-161 CE)

103

(2)

The Boundaries of the Land According to Halakhah

105

(1)

The Urbanization of the Land (63-330 CE)

106

(2)

Migration Routes from Babylonia to Eretz Israel

108

(1)

L. The Talmudic Sages

The Third- and Fourth-Generation Tannaim (115-175 CE)

109

(1)

The First Generation of Amoraim (225-260 CE)

110

(1)

The Second Generation of Amoraim (260-290 CE)

111

(2)

The Third Generation of Amoraim (280-320 CE)

113

(1)

The Fourth- and Fifth-Generation Amoraim (320-400 CE)

114

(1)

Julian's Attempt to Rebuild the Temple (362-363 CE)

115

(1)

The First Generation of Babylonian Amoraim (200-254 CE)

115

(2)

The Second Generation of Babylonian Amoraim (254-299 CE)

117

(1)

The Third Generation of Babylonian Amoraim (299-330 CE)

118

(1)

The Fourth Generation of Babylonian Amoraim (330-352 CE)

119

(1)

The Fifth and Sixth Generations of Babylonian Amoraim (352-376 CE)

119

(1)

The Political Division of Palestine in the Byzantine Period

120

(2)

The Jewish Diaspora in the Fifth Century

122

(1)

II. THE MIDDLE AGES

123

(178)

A. From the Barbarian Invasion of Europe Until the Crusades

The Barbarian Invasions of Europe (5th cent.)

124

(2)

The Dispersion of the Jews (mid-6th cent.)

126

(2)

Synagogues in Palestine (2nd-6th cent.)

128

(2)

The Himyar Kingdom and Its War with the Ethiopians (6th cent.)

130

(2)

Wars Between Persia and Byzantium (609-629)

132

(1)

The Persian Invasion of Palestine (614-618)

133

(1)

The Jews in the Arabian Peninsula (beginning of the 7th cent.)

133

(3)

Muhammad's Wars Against the Jews (623-629)

135

(1)

The City of Medina

135

(1)

Arabian Conquest and the Rise of Islam (622-721)

136

(2)

Visigothic Spain (7th cent.)

138

(1)

The Jews in Italy During the Papacy of Gregory I (the Great) (590-604)

139

(2)

Charlemagne's Empire

141

(3)

Boundaries of the Divided Carolingian Empire (843)

143

(1)

The Khazars and Pressure form the Christian States (8th-10th cent.)

144

(3)

The Khazars

146

(1)

The Radhanite Merchants

147

(3)

Italy in the Framework of Byzantium and the Holy Roman Empire (9th-10th cent.)

150

(2)

The Norman Invasion of Southern Italy

152

(1)

The Ahimaaz Scroll of Genealogies

152

(1)

Religious Ferment and Sects in Judaism (until the 12th cent.)

153

(2)

The Gaonate in Babylonia

155

(5)

Bonds Between Babylonia, Eretz Israel and the Diaspora

160

(2)

The Geonim of Eretz Israel; and Aliyah to Eretz Israel

162

(3)

The Jews of North Africa (12th-15th cent.)

165

(3)

Tunisia

165

(2)

Egypt

167

(1)

Morocco

167

(1)

Muslim Spain: Economy and Centers of Jewish Settlement (10th-12th cent.)

168

(2)

Reconquista: The Reconquest (until the mid-12th cent.)

170

(3)

Jewish Communities in Ashkenaz (up to 1096)

173

(2)

The Massacres of 1096: "Gezerot Tatnu" (4856)

175

(2)

The First Crusade (1096-1099)

177

(2)

The Crusader Kingdom of Eretz Israel

178

(1)

The Capture of Jerusalem (7 June-15 July 1099)

179

(1)

From Crusade to Crusades

179

(5)

The Crusades

180

(2)

The City of Norwich

182

(2)

B. Until the Black Death

Blood Libels

184

(1)

The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela (1160-1173)

185

(3)

In Italy, Greece and Turkey

187

(1)

In the Holy Land

187

(1)

In the Near East

187

(1)

Jewish Communities in the Holy Land (12th-14th cent.)

188

(4)

Immigration to the Holy Land (12th cent.)

189

(1)

Immigration to the Holy Land (13th—early 14th cent.)

190

(2)

The Jews of Italy (13th cent.)

192

(1)

Jewish Communities in Spain and the Reconquest (13th and 14th cent.)

193

(4)

The Collecta Organization

197

(1)

Spiritual Creativity: The Tosafists

198

(4)

The Spread of the Kabbalah

202

(2)

The Maimonidean Controversy

204

(3)

Hebrew Manuscripts of Ashkenaz, France and Spain

207

(2)

The Jews of England up to the Expulsion

209

(2)

The Jewish Communities of France (13th cent.)

211

(2)

Persecutions in Ashkenaz (13th and 14th cent.)

213

(3)

Massacres in the Rhine Districts

215

(1)

The Pastoureaux and "Lepers" Massacres (1320-1321)

216

(1)

The Black Death (1348)

217

(2)

C. Until the Expulsion from Spain

Destruction of the Jewish Community of France (14th cent.)

219

(1)

The Beginning of Jewish Settlement in Poland

220

(2)

The Jews of Spain up to the Massacres of 1391

222

(3)

The Jewish Quarter in Toledo

223

(2)

Jewish Settlement in Portugal (13th and 14th cent.)

225

(1)

The Mongol Invasions of Palestine

226

(2)

The Mongol Empire

227

(1)

Immigration to the Holy Land (14th and 15th cent.)

228

(2)

The Beginnings of the Ottoman Empire

230

(2)

The Fall of Constantine

232

(1)

Commerce in the Mediterranean Basin (14th-15th cent.)

232

(2)

The Jews of Germany in the Shadow of Expulsions and Massacres (14th and 15h cent.)

234

(3)

Centers of Dissemination of Hatred of the Jews

236

(1)

The Jews of Switzerland (13th-15th cent.)

237

(1)

The Jews of Spain on the Eve of the Expulsion (15th cent.)

238

(6)

Spanish Jewish Communities

239

(1)

The Kingdom of Aragon at the Time of Alfonso V

240

(1)

Violent Attacks Against the Conversos of Cordoba

241

(1)

The Conquest of Granada (1 January 1492)

242

(2)

The Jewish Communities in Italy (14th-16th cent.)

244

(4)

The City of Rome

247

(1)

Jewish Demographic Changes (from the 13th cent. until the Expulsion from Spain)

248

(8)

Jewish Populations in Europe

252

(2)

The Expulsion Order

254

(2)

Expulsion from Spain (31 March 1492)

256

(1)

Jewish Exodus from Spain and Portugal (1492-1497)

257

(4)

Routes Taken by Jews Expelled from Spain

260

(1)

The Wanderings of R. Judah Hayyat

260

(1)

D. Until the Chmielnicki Massacres and Shabbatean Movement

The Ottoman Empire at the Height of Its Expansion (until 1683)

261

(3)

The Jews of the Balkan Peninsula (16th cent.)

263

(1)

Immigration to the Holy Land (16th and 17th cent.)

264

(4)

Palestine Under Ottoman Rule (16th cent.)

265

(2)

Emissaries from the Holy Land to the Diaspora (15th-16th cent.)

267

(1)

Jewish Communities in North Africa and in the Egyptian Delta (15th-16th cent.)

267

(1)

Kabbalists and Kabbalistic Centers (16th and 17th cent.)

268

(2)

Jewish Printers and Admission of Jews to Universities (15th-16th cent.)

270

(1)

Universities

271

(1)

The Jews of Italy (16th and 17th cent.)

272

(2)

The Jewish Ghetto in Venice

274

(1)

The Travels of David Reuveni (16th cent.)

274

(2)

The Emigration of Conversos from Portugal and Their Dispersion; The Readmission Jews to England (16th and 17th cent.)

276

(4)

Area of Jewish Settlement in the City of London

279

(1)

Jewish Communities in Holland (17th cent.)

279

(1)

Jewish Settlement in America and the Far East (16th and 17th cent.)

280

(2)

Jewish Settlement in America (17th cent.)

280

(1)

Jewish Settlement in India (16th and 17th cent.)

281

(1)

Inquisition Tribunals (15th-17th cent.)

282

(4)

In Spain and Portugal

283

(1)

In Italy

283

(3)

The Jews of Germany During the Reformation

286

(2)

The Jews of Silesia, Moravia and Bohemia (16th cent.)

287

(1)

The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)

288

(1)

The Jews of Hungary Under Turkish and Austrian Rule

288

(2)

The Jews of Eastern Europe (until the 1650's)

290

(2)

The Jews of Poland Within the Council of Four Lands (17th cent.)

292

(3)

The Chmielnicki Massacres (1648-1649)

295

(2)

Shabbetai Zevi—Activities and Travels

297

(5)

The Travels of Nathan of Gaza

299

(1)

Leaders of the Shabbatean Movement After the Death of Shabbetai Zevi

300

(1)

III. MODERN TIMES

301

(169)

A. Jewish Demography

Modern Times in Jewish History

302

(2)

Migratory Directions: The Middle Ages to the Modern Period

304

(1)

Jewish Migrations (19th and 20th cent.)

305

(3)

Jewish Migrations Within Europe

306

(1)

Intercontinental Migrations of the Jews

307

(1)

The Jewish People in the Nineteenth Century

308

(1)

The Jewish People on the Eve of World War II

309

(3)

B. European Jewry Until World War I

The Spanish-Portuguese Jews in Europe and in the Americas (17th and 18th cent.)

312

(3)

The Beginning of Jewish Settlement in the Americas

313

(1)

Economic Activities of Spanish-Portuguese Jews (17th and 18th cent.)

314

(1)

The Court Jews in Central Europe (17th and 18th cent.)

315

(3)

The Jews in Poland and Lithuania Before the Eighteenth-Century Partitions

318

(4)

Partitions of Poland

319

(1)

Poland and Lithuania (18th cent.)

320

(2)

The Jews in the Russian Empire (late 19th cent.)

322

(2)

The Jews in the Hapsburg Empire (late 18th cent.)

324

(2)

The Jews in Austria-Hungary (early 20th cent.)

326

(1)

The Jews in France (18th and 19th cent.)

327

(3)

The Jews in Alsace-Lorraine (late 18th cent.)

328

(1)

The Consistories (19th cent.)

329

(1)

C. Major Themes in Modern Jewish History

Jewish Entrepreneurs (19th and 20th cent.)

330

(2)

Jewish Entrepreneurs in the United States

331

(1)

The Legal Situation of the Jews Until World War I

332

(2)

The Legal Situation of the Jews in Muslim Countries

334

(1)

Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) in Europe (18th and 19th cent.)

335

(3)

Shabbateanism, Frankism, and Early Hasidism

338

(2)

Hasidism: Beginnings and Expansion

340

(1)

Religious Tendencies in Modern Judaism

340

(8)

Religious Trends and Institutions Among European Jews

346

(2)

Orthodoxy (Haredut) in Eastern Europe

348

(1)

The Great Yeshivas in Eastern Europe and the Moser Movement

348

(2)

The Hasidic Movement (19th cent.)

350

(1)

The Religious Organization of American Jewry (mid-19th and early 20th cent.)

350

(3)

Reform and Conservative Congregations in the United States (early 20th cent.)

352

(1)

Modern Antisemitism: Ideological Sources

353

(8)

Antisemitic Parties and Organizations in Europe (late 19th and early 20th cent.)

355

(1)

The "Hep-Hep" Disturbances (1819)

356

(1)

Anti-Jewish Riots During the Revolutions of 1848

357

(1)

Anti-Jewish Riots in Russia (1881-1906)

358

(2)

Blood Libels (19th and 20th cent.)

360

(1)

Judaic Studies (19th and 20th cent.)

361

(3)

Judaic Studies in Europe and in Palestine/Israel

362

(1)

Judaic Studies in North America

363

(1)

Languages of the Jews

364

(2)

The Roots of Jewish Nationalism (late 19th cent.)

366

(1)

Jewish Nationalism: Ideological and Organizational Tendencies

367

(2)

Jewish Socialism: The Bund

369

(1)

The Rise of the Bund and Its Spread in the Pale of Settlement

369

(1)

Zionism: Ideological Components

370

(6)

The Beginning of the Zionist Movement

372

(1)

The Structure of the World Zionist Organization (1929)

373

(2)

The Political Composition of Zionist Congresses (1921-1939)

375

(1)

Jewish Student Organizations and Youth Movements

376

(4)

Jewish Student Organizations in Europe

378

(1)

Jewish Student Organizations in the United States

379

(1)

D. Muslim Countries

The Jews in Muslim Countries

380

(1)

The Jews in Morocco

381

(2)

The Jews in Algeria

383

(1)

The Jews in Tunisia

384

(1)

The Jews in Libya

385

(1)

The Jews in Egypt

385

(2)

The Jews in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey

387

(3)

The Jews in Constantinople (Istanbul)

388

(1)

The Jews in Salonika

389

(1)

The Karaites

390

(1)

The Ethiopian Jews

391

(1)

The Jews in Iraq

392

(1)

The Jews in Kurdistan

393

(1)

The Jews in Iran

394

(2)

The Jews in Afghanistan

396

(1)

The Jews in Yemen

396

(2)

The Jews in India

398

(2)

The Jews in the Far East

400

(1)

E. European Jewry in the Interwar Years

The Jews in East Central Europe

401

(1)

The Jews in Eastern Europe After World War I

402

(2)

Pogroms in Russia and Poland (1917-1921)

403

(1)

Jewish Delegations at the Paris Peace Conference (1919)

403

(1)

Equal Rights and Minority Rights After World War I

404

(1)

The Jews in Poland (1921-1931)

404

(3)

Historical Subgroups in Polish Jewry

404

(3)

The Jews in Warsaw

407

(1)

The Jews in the Baltic States in the Interwar Years

407

(2)

The Jews in the Soviet Union (1920's and 1930's)

409

(2)

The Caucasian "Mountain Jews" and the Jews in Georgia

410

(1)

The Jews in Bukhara

410

(1)

The Jewish Autonomous Region in Birobidzhan

411

(1)

The Jews in Czechoslovakia in the Interwar Years

411

(1)

The Jews in Hungary in the Interwar Years

412

(1)

The Jews in Romania in the Interwar Years

413

(2)

The Jews in Southeastern Europe (early 20th cent.)

415

(1)

The Jews in Western Europe in the 1930's

416

(2)

The Jews in Germany: 1925

418

(2)

Jewish Emgration from Germany During the Nazi Period

420

(1)

F. European Jewry: 1940 ff.

The Holocaust: 1939 to 1945

421

(8)

Jewish Reactions and Resistance

424

(1)

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

425

(1)

Auschwitz

426

(1)

The Escape from Europe (Briha)

427

(1)

The Outcome of the Holocaust: 1951

428

(1)

The Extermination of European Jews, by Countries

428

(1)

Eurpean Jewry (late 20th cent.)

429

(1)

The Jews in the Soviet Union (late 20th cent.)

430

(2)

G. The New Centers of Jewry

Palestine in the Nineteenth Century

432

(1)

Jewish Immigration to Palestine/Israel

433

(2)

Early Jewish Immigrations (Aliyot) to Palestine

434

(1)

Jewish Immigration (Aliyah) to Israel After 1948

434

(1)

The Boundaries of Palestine

435

(1)

Toward the Establishment of the Jewish State in Palestine (1940-1948)

436

(1)

The Wars Fought by Israel

437

(2)

The Jews in Canada

439

(1)

The Development of American Jewry (1878 ff.)

440

(6)

Jewish immigration to the United States (19th and 20th cent.)

441

(1)

American Jewry in the 1920's

442

(2)

The Socioeconomic Development of American Jewry

444

(1)

The Jewish Labor Movement in the United States

444

(1)

Jewish Institutions in Manhattan Until 1914

445

(1)

The Jews in Latin America (19th and 20th cent.)

446

(2)

The Jews in Argentina

447

(1)

The Jews in South Africa

448

(1)

The Jews in Australia and New Zealand

449

(1)

H. A Changing World Jewry: Late 20th to Early 21st Centuries

450

(20)

Jewish Population Since World War II

451

(1)

Geographical Distribution

452

(4)

The Jewish People in 2002

452

(3)

The Jews in the Former Soviet Union

455

(1)

Core and Enlarged Jewish Populations

456

(1)

The Jews in the World System

457

(1)

The Jews in Major Urban Areas

458

(2)

Jewish Centers in the United States, 2002

459

(1)

International Migration of the Jews

460

(2)

Ideological and Other Determinants of Aliyah

462

(2)

Jewish Marriages, Births and Deaths

464

(2)

Major Brands of Jewish Identification

466

(1)

Jewish Population Projections

467

(3)

Index

470

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